Welcome to Government is Not Your Daddy
How much government do we need?
- We need as much government as is necessary and sufficient to protect our individual rights and freedoms.
- We don’t need so much government that we expect it to assume our individual responsibilities.
The best solution to most problems is the solution that maximizes individual freedom and individual responsibility. (Wouldn’t it be nice if more people practiced self-control rather than trying to control other people?)
Old-Fashioned Values
- Work hard and take pride in your work.
- Save money.
- Don’t spend what you haven’t earned.
- If you incur debt, pay it off promptly.
- Expect nothing from others.
- Express gratittude toward those who help you and respect toward those you admire.
- Flatter no one.
- Treat everyone fairly.
- Take responsibility for your actions and their consequences.
- And get off of my lawn!
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Ignorance does not solve poverty, nor guarantee anyones’ rights. If ONE person is poor due to abuse of powers, than anyone can be made poor.
1. Work hard and take pride in your work.
2. Save money.
3. Don’t spend what you haven’t earned.
4. If you incur debt, pay it off promptly.
5. Expect nothing from others.
6. Express gratitude toward those who help you and respect toward those you admire.
7. Flatter no one.
8. Treat everyone fairly.
9. Take responsibility for your actions and their consequences.
10. And get off of my lawn!
All the above 10 ideas I agree, however, the people in power will not let us do the above (even Ron Paul stated at a Colorado rally that the government won’t let him solve poverty). Due to the love of power and money, we have greedy elitists who won’t share nor allow opportunity for all. In addition, it is too simplistic to just say work hard and pay off your debt. Livable wage jobs have been shipped off to Mexico, China, and now India by free market greedy corporations. What I mean by livable wages is is defined in “The Declaration of Independence” which was signed by the congress into law as part of our constitution. See line 6: “unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” How can you persue happiness when opportunity is shipped out of the country and resources for new options are not shared (as in small biz op)? Our economy is based on money. When you ship out good paying jobs, you take power away from the middle and lower classes. Corporations are causing economic insecurity to the masses and to our country. When Japan attacked (1941) and cutoff our access to resources in Asia (rubber and more), we declared war on them. When you cutoff resources and opportunity it is called economic blackmail. This is fascism which IS NOT constitutional. It is immoral. Too much power in the top takes away from the 99 percents rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit happiness.
Solution1: Only buy US products and only elect officials who will end economic black mail of outsourcing and bring back all types of jobs.
It is not wrong for Mexico, China, or India to develop, but not at the cost of US jobs and at the cost of our rights.
Solution 2: Do what Japan does. You cannot sell a foreign made product in Japan if it takes (livable wage) jobs away from any citizen in Japan. Basically, every country should make as many products as they can in their own country, unless they are too small or have 100% employment.
Note: Our federal government and our military are dependent on foreign countries for many high-tech components. This means some of those chips in our missiles come from Asia. What if something happens to that chip plant in Asia?
BEFORE anyone comments, come up with viable alternative solutions! Otherwise you are ignoring the problem. Plus, euthanizing poor people will not fix the problem. Sharing resources like JC and the book of Acts states will help get end poverty and end inequality.
“How can you persue happiness when opportunity is shipped out of the country and resources for new options are not shared (as in small biz op)?”
You can pursue happiness any way you want, as long as you don’t violate anybody else’s fundamental rights. But nobody owes you anything. If jobs get shipped to other countries because the labor unions and labor laws make it economically infeasible to keep the jobs here, then vote to stop the labor unions and labor laws from pricing our own workforce out of the market. You are not entitled to a job. You have to earn it. To do that, you have to develop superior skills to somebody else and offer your skills at as good or better a price than they do.
The viable alternative solution is to allow a free market in this country. Then it will make economic sense to keep the jobs here.
You’re free to pursue your own version of happiness, whatever that may be, as long as you can afford it, but nobody owes it to you. And nobody owes you a living, either. Grow up, stop whining, and start taking responsiblity for your own life.
“jobs get shipped to other countries because the labor unions and labor laws make it economically infeasible to keep the jobs here” (FALSE)
Labor unions were created to protect people from death, injury, and make live-able wages. The Japanese, Germans, French, and other foreign corporations are eager to use our American labor force to build cars here and sell here. It makes economic sense to build here. It makes safety sense to build here. It makes green sense to build here causing less pollution and saving on transportation costs. Otherwise, do you want more lead in your foreign made products. Free market is a myth for corporations to exploit cheap labor. A famous right-wing business man stated that you need to pay your workers enough to be able to buy the products you make. That was Henry Ford’s idea.
“nobody owes you a living, either. Grow up, stop whining”
It is not a matter of owing anyone a job. It is a matter of greed and morality. It is a matter of common people being used by corporations as pawns and not treated with respect for all that American citizens have done. Corporations are making money off our tax dollars, off of the sick, off of the elderly, off of YOU, and off of death/war. Corporations do owe us for protecting them and for protecting their interest overseas. Our taxes pay for many services and research that US corporations take for granted. They use the gov to get what they want and toss those who helped them away. In 2005 Oracle begged the congress to force PeopleSoft to sell themselves, because Oracle was too greedy to license out PeopleSoft’s software products. Within a year Oracle laid off 5,000 people for no reason (see: ZDNetUK News & computerworld.com).
Finally, I am responsible, I am grown up, and I make my own good living, but I am writing for those who are not at my level. When any one American is in poverty, oppressed, and is given injustice by corporations or corrupt governments, then we all are in this danger.
We don’t need a daddy, we do need true fairness, and equality for all. You don’t understand! The USA no longer has a fair playing field for all to find opportunity. May be you’ll grew up and start realizing the mess this country is in. Your blind faith in Reagonomics will be your own undoing. Don’t worry, I won’t be writing back to deaf willfully ignorant ears. Goodbye, notyourdaddy.
So long, T. Happy trails…
wow, you seem to have attracted a few of the whiners Obama has been talking about! How suprising they are on the left side of things!!
Come on, can’t we flatter you a little?
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Today marks the first anniversary of our blog, zionbeckons.blogspot.com, and for our birthday we have discovered “notyourdaddy.” This is great stuff and a wonderful gift, for which we give hearty thanks.
From the Ozarks to Oregon go our best wishes for your continued success. Drop by sometime and enjoy some “preaching to the choir.”
Best regards,
Cec
Happy birthday to ZionBeckons! I just checked out your blog, and it looks like a good one. I’m looking forward to reading more of it.
Welcome to Daddyland, and I hope you’ll be a regular visitor!