People...

On Oct 7, 5:54 pm, Gene Seibel wrote:


"A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can
only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse
(a liberal gift) out of public treasury. From that moment on the
majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits
from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always
collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a
Dictatorship."

We are there. The takers have won.

Makes sense, especially here in Canada where we have a nanny state
that spends far too much on people who need a kick in the pants. But I
think there are some factors introduced by the Social Engineers that
have created much of it. For 30 years at least we've been telling kids
that they are #1 and that they deserve this or that. We've taught them
about self-esteem---a necessary part of one's makeup, but it seems to
have become the ONLY part of their makeup, for many. Everyone else can
just get out of their way, because THEY are important. They also
ignore traffic rules as often as possible ("you can't tell me I can't
do that") and think cheating in university is OK and normal. Anything
at all to get ahead. We've had the no-spanking stuff carried to
ridiculous extremes so that the kid can thumb his nose at the teacher,
later at the cop, and then at the judge. We've let universities train
way too many lawyers and way too few engineers and doctors. We have
groups that won't let anyone starve. We have parents who will buy
their kids anything they want, any education they want, and will
defend the kid when the teacher says he's lazy. Then when that kid has
to finally get to work, whether at college or in the workplace, he
can't handle it. Never had to work before.
Don't get me wrong. There are really needy people out on the
street, many who, 20 years ago, would have been in institutions
because they were mentally or physically incapable of caring for
themselves. Many of those places were closed to save money. But the
vast majority of takers are wholly responsible for wrecking their
minds or bodies or for refusing to go to work at bottom-end jobs and
work their way up, then expecting the rest of us to pay for the
repairs.
A friend lived in Mexico for awhile. He said that they had no
welfare safety nets, and that a man's family was expected to look
after him if he was in dire straits. That same family would throw him
out to starve if he refused to work when he was again capable. Reality
at its best.

Redneck Dan