Flawless
Floors and Safety Nets
Charlie Earl
For many
years our fearless political and bureaucratic leaders have been warning us that
if we do not enlarge, enhance or initiate new programs, too many Americans will
fall “through the cracks.” The self-appointed social consciences of our nation
do not hesitate to insist that each of us through enforced taxation be required
to guarantee that no one in the United States will ever go hungry, live without
adequate shelter or be denied the use of a cell phone. The metaphorical “safety
net” is designed to insure that people in dire need through no fault of their
own will not be abandoned by the society and the nation. Here’s a shocker: Nets
have holes…sometimes very large ones particularly when administered by bureaucrats
and designed by politicians.
As I ponder
my obligation as a child of God and a taxpayer in one of the wealthiest nations
on Earth, I shudder with anger at the audacity of our political leaders. They
coerce our property from us to construct their safety nets by appealing to our
sense of compassion then deride our cheapskate attitudes because the net has
gaping holes. What they really want is to construct a flawless floor of
dependence on government. They seek a floor so tightly designed that no one can
slip through the cracks. But you and I know that such a floor cannot exist in
the social arena. The flawless floor is an imaginary device for squeezing
taxpayers until they too wish to reside on the flawless floor inside the
tightly woven fabric of the ultimate safety net. Just like pedophiles use candy
to lure children, our political and bureaucratic leaders use compassionate
security to seduce the populace.
When people
allow the government to assemble the flawless floors of dependence, they are,
in essence, implicitly permitting the state to erect walls as well. When one
surrenders the property gained through one’s efforts, the state believes it is
justification for limiting peoples’ ability and opportunity for accumulating
wealth. Hence….the state forges forward constructing the walls that impede and
limit the people. Just as with children and pets, if people allow government to
expand its reach and portfolio, it will assume that further reach and expansion
are acceptable … perhaps even desirable. It is the progression from flimsy nets
to sturdier nets to hammocks to floors that leads to enslavement and tyranny.
Historically,
our political leaders and their functionaries have been abusing the Constitution of the United States since
it was framed. Notably though, the perversion of constitutional principles was
accelerated at the beginning of the 20th Century until today when we
find ourselves on the cusp of losing our republic. There are very few citizens
alive today who were living 100 years ago. Even fewer were old enough to
discern or experience the subtle changes in our national direction. It is no
wonder, therefore, that so few people currently comprehend the perversion of
our national persona. Unless they are historically, philosophically and legally
astute, they will not and cannot detect the corrosive elements that have
infected our Framers’ vision.
Ignorance
may be bliss as the poet, Thomas Grey, penned, but our ignorant bliss
eventually yields despotism. So…here we are today, and a vocal minority pleads
with their fellow citizens to open their eyes and observe the coming tyranny.
The major problem is that our uninformed fellows have been living and adjusting
to a soft tyranny for their entire lives, and they cannot see what the problem may
be. In fact….they may welcome the onset of true tyranny with open arms because
if the safety net is good, the flawless floor is even better. They do not
comprehend that as the walls are being built, the floor is decaying.
Charlie Earl
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