Entitlements, Subsidies and Checkbooks

Schwarzenegger Eyes End To Calif. Welfare Program
All Things Considered (NPR), May 28, 2009 · Saying that the state is "backed into a corner," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed $5 billion in deep spending cuts....

Progressives love entitlements and subsidies. Dangle some gift or prize in front of someone, like some carrot and horse, make them do some loops that you enjoy watching...because progressives are more educated than you and know better. Yeah right!

My wife used a clever teaching tool when she taught elementary school. She used a checkbook system. Instead of dangling prizes for doing work or homework, she gave her students a tool that gave them the power to choose and make decisions in their own self-interest. Each student was given a checkbook, as a condition of being in class they were given a salary. They would have to pay for renting their desk; they would be charged if they caused trouble. Using the checkbook/capitalism system they managed their money, learned a budget and math. She would not give her students subsidies or entitlements. Students will never learn responsibility for their actions.

When you continually bribe someone with a prize if they do something...they will always expect a prize. So when we bribe or subsidize women to have children and tell them it's OK because we will subsidize you with welfare...are we really teaching them anything? Too many people have become slaves to entitlement and subsidy and government. Farmers get paid by the government not to grow food.

The federal government has become the national Plantation. The plantation is an institution that enslaves men and women. And the ultimate outcome is more money and power for the masters.

His Presidency has increased our debt into the trillions (yet He and the media are worried about a couple hundred million dollars in bonuses...0.02% puh-leez, but that's another post another day) to buy GM, Chrysler, AIG...who's next? The banking system and auto industry are slowly being brought into the Plantation. His Presidency (I mean the master) tells Chrsyler and GM, "You need to slim up..." they drop thousands of dealers leading to tens-of thousands of jobs lost (the average dealer has near 50 employees). The master runs the banks and auto companies.

In stead of working toward their own self-interest, these companies and "recepients" have succombed to the "greater good".

In the end, welfare is a part of our national Plantation, it subsidizes women to have children who will grow up thinking government is the end all and the party and people who have, for decades, "fought" the war on poverty have yet to win it and are losing big time. When will they break their bonds from a failure of a policy.

The poor, GM, Chrysler, the farmer GET OFF THE PLANTATION. Stop the cycle of poverty and degradation. Stop working for the master, stop making government babies...

Read up on Chris Gardner or Ben S. Carson, M.D. Given the right inspiration anyone can get off the Plantation.