Forgive me for venting on this Labor Day holiday weekend as I labor to understand our sad, curious state of society.
It is as if the rules of common courtesy have been suspended. It is the same with traditional standards of worth ethic, responsibility, independence.
All are on metaphorical life support.
Can they be saved? Likely not.
The lamestream media, as too often is the case, can’t seem to see the forest for the trees, coming out consistently on the wrong side of issues.
Consider their nonstop bleating about the possible end of the eviction moratorium for tenants who opted to stop paying their rent or mortgages using the COVID-19 excuse.
This episode is a quintessential example of how bad governmental policy encourages bad public behavior. Good luck trying to get that horse back in the barn.
Basically, both recent federal administrations have been handing out money under the catch-all title of “stimulus.” Those checks were supposed to replace lost wages and be used for things such as rent, mortgage payments, food, utilities.
Instead, an uncomfortably large number of people saw it as the ability to upgrade their televisions or cell phones, go on vacations, buy new cars, gamble, buy more drugs, whatever. In a total bastardization of the intent, the freedom from needing to make rent or mortgage payments was taken as another injection of spending money to be used (wasted) on discretionary purchases.
Like our federal government, that refuses to concede it is, for all intents and purposes bankrupt – we’re speaking financially here although morally bankrupt also would apply – the populace expects the good times to keep on rolling via more and more government handouts.
This will end eventually. It must. And it will end badly.
Meanwhile, there is a considerable lobbying effort afoot to increase these handouts so that those on the dole can live even better at the expense of the shrinking percentage of the population that despite incentives being offered to do otherwise, for some reason continues to go to work and pay taxes.
It is laughable against this context to recall the words of former president John F. Kennedy (A DEMOCRAT!!!!!) who told the nation during his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
Kennedy, still considered a Democratic icon by some, wouldn’t be able to make it out of the primaries were he running now due to not offering enough handouts.
And that speaks volumes about the perilous state of our nation.
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