My
veterinary clinic is on Laurel’s Main Street, so
traveling it several times per day allows me to
observe the bustling downtown district. At first I
was surprised to see twenty-something young men
skateboarding on the sidewalks at two o’clock in the
afternoon. “Why aren’t these able bodied folks at
work,” I thought to myself. To give them the benefit
of the doubt I figured they must work the
nightshift, so this mid-afternoon roll around town
was the equivalent of my daily pre-dawn run. Bully
for them. I began to question my rationalization
noticing these same boarders at all hours of the
evening. The night I spotted a frumpily dressed
youngster, talking on a cellphone while sipping on a
$4 latte I realized this group was part of the
American population who have dropped out of the
workforce; a progressive casualty of hope and
change. Do you remember the spin Obamacare was
relieving Americans of job-lock; folks employed only
to maintain their health insurance? I am speculating
this latte-lad was not suffering from job-lock.
Back at my office, the plot thickened while I was
treating Cache, a dog with painfully plugged anal
sacs. I was visiting with Kathy, Cache’s owner,
while I squeezed his anal sac secretion onto my
sleeve; being a veterinarian is not as glamourous as
it appears on television. Kathy mentioned her
part-time job with Yellowstone County’s newest,
major retailer. Part-time may be a bit of a
misnomer, as most of her shifts are nine, solid
hours and her employer is frantically, but
unsuccessfully looking for more good help; a problem
becoming commonplace throughout Montana. This fact
begs the question, why doesn’t the jobless skate
boarder get on the payroll with Kathy? Likely, he
does not want a job; an answer so foreign to my way
of thinking I cannot begin to follow his logic.
President Obama recently boasted how the nation’s
unemployment rate had dropped to 5.9 percent; a
fictitious number fabricated by only listing people
actively looking for work. The $4 latte-lad never
gets counted. Dependency has squelched the desire of
the downtrodden to improve their lot in life, so a
record number of Americans survive only by subsidy.
No nation in history has ever become rich by taking
money from one group and giving it to another under
the guise of compassion. However, one thing is
certain, nations pursuing wealth redistribution have
created a tyrannical ruling class with which to
control the unwashed. For proof how dependency can
enslave a population, look at Montana’s seven Indian
tribes. In less than a century, self-sufficient
Indian nations have become hopelessly trapped in
government programs. It is not racism causing the
less-than-stellar societal conditions on our
reservations, it is socialism. Before the latte-lad
even realizes it, he too will be completely
dependent on handouts with his only option at
climbing the ladder is to be a more effective beggar
than his neighbor. To think otherwise is racism.
Because I do not wish to see America follow our
Indian friends into despair, let me offer a little
advice to my boarder friend. He may never read this,
but some young man or woman in the hinterlands may
learn enough to break free of the ruling class
indoctrination. You have been misled. Those who say
you get less because some evil corporation has
cheated you out of something which is rightfully
yours are manipulating you. Their solution is always
the same; elect progressives promising to punish
corporations and the wealthy so as to give you free
stuff. When you fall for it, you are imprisoned in
dependency like the American Indian, the producers
are enslaved by taxes and regulation with the ruling
class enshrining themselves in absolute power.
Here is the truth. America is not evil, she is
great, with her strength not coming from diversity
or equality, but from freedom. The only function of
government is to secure the rights endowed by your
Creator. The idea of the ruling class dividing
everything so we each have the same stuff is a
principle of Marxism, not liberty. Free market
capitalism creates economic growth which in turn
provides economic liberty. If $20, $30, or $40 per
hour jobs are abundant, government programs quickly
become a nuisance rather than a necessity which
explains why collectivists fiercely oppose
capitalism. If you buy the lie, you soon will have
no choice but to kneel and lick the hand that feeds
you.
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