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Let’s Face It: U.S. Taxpayers Are Suckers
Starting a business is hard work.
But some have figured out another way to run their own show, make money, guarantee a rich retirement, and live on a government expense account. How would this work? Easy: you create an issue, find a villain to blame, and demand the government create a solution. Then it’s a matter of getting appointed to the bureaucratic body in charge of solving this problem, creating a larger department, increasing the budget each year–and you are set. Taxpayers are stuck with the risks and they pay all the bills…suckers.
Here’s one area ripe for the picking: shortages. Create a scenario where our country runs out of fossil fuels, and you can create an entire government-sponsored industry dealing in renewable energy. Renewable energy cannot sustain itself; but with government money, who wouldn’t want in on the deal?
A college professor can get some funding to study the environment. But if the world is coming to an end and scientific study can save the world, stand back–and the money will start flowing into the university doing studies. You start off calling it global cooling and go from there. If you have a PhD and a knack for grant-writing, it should be easy to come up with a need for additional research. Smart politicians invest in those industries responding to government mandates and become rich. Does anybody know any politicians who have become rich pushing for global warming/cooling/climate change?
Sometimes technology gets out front and solves a problem before it reaches a crisis. In such a case, it serves the special interest group to attack the answer and recreate the problem. How about those nuclear plants?
This cycle of people depending on taxpayers to support their ideas has been going on since the 1970’s. It all seemed so new and progressive to support the hippies wanting to protect “mother earth.” Of course, we wanted to fight poverty. Homeless people must be victims. We support the homeless. Minimum wages should be set; everybody deserves a working wage.
For 50 years, we have bought into this liberal view of a larger government, less individual freedoms, and more government protections. Yes, class division works.
Going into the 2016 presidential election, most of us are over the whole deal. Most all of this idealism has failed to improve people’s lives or living conditions. Minorities own fewer businesses today than when the war on poverty started. There are fewer jobs for kids looking for a starting point to their working lives. The majority of homeless turn out to be people who have issues and need help.
It is time to give up on those who “have great intentions” and place our faith in those who have ideas that have proven successful many times in the past.
In other words, hippies were fun; but they are a failed experiment. Let’s return to the idea of solid business practices and a government that stays out of our lives and leave the dreamers to fund their own experiments. You are only a sucker if you fall for failed ideas more than once.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/lets-face-it-u-s-taxpayers-are-suckers/
