2005 Soap Box Archives

Charity and Responsibility 12/12/05

I am a man who believes in charity. I believe that we should reach out a helping hand to those who are unable to take care of themselves, the sick, the infirm, the mentally impaired and those who are hampered by circumstance beyond their control.

I believe in a benevolent society which takes care of its own and I believe in government assistance to the extent of Social Security and programs designed to help who have fallen through the cracks.

Now having very sincerely said that let me say that I believe that there is a dark side of government entitlements, which encourages sloth and ignorance and whether by design or mistake promotes an ideology of self-proliferating dependence.

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society with all it’s cracks and flaws
was at least intended to lift our most desperate citizens out of abject poverty, help them learn a skill and turn them into productive members of society.

After three generations this has not even come close to happening and I shudder to think how many of our hard earned tax dollars end up in the pockets of crack dealers.

Doctors cheat Medicare with a regularity that is nothing short of absolutely criminal and the American Medical Association
barely administers a slap on the wrist and allows them to keep on practicing. This is nothing short of grand larceny and stealing from the poor. Any doctor who does this is a greedy scumbag and should be drummed out of the medical profession.

Some people and many politicians have the attitude that if the federal government needs more money they should simply print it up and they have a right to allocate or receive it at their whim.

My feeling is that if the elected officials of this nation can’t run the government on what we give them they should simply go home and give somebody else an opportunity.

Fiscal responsibility is not impossible. If any private company in this nation was run like the federal government it would go out of business in six months.

Already the American automotive industry is in trouble by having to pay entitlements for hundreds of thousands of people adding as much as $1,500.00 to the cost of each car they produce.
I don’t mean that it’s wrong, these people earned and deserve their retirement.

What I’m trying to point out is what happens when the company goes broke and is no longer able to pay their entitlements or their current employees? Obviously something has to be done to avoid this disastrous situation and I sincerely hope that the companies will shoulder their responsibility and work something out.

In the same way if the federal government continues to squander our tax dollars on their seemingly endless frivolous pork projects and continue to buy votes by passing out money, the day will come when the productive citizens in this country will be so heavily taxed that the national work ethic could be seriously damaged.

Being able to depend on something or someone is a good thing.
Of course I depend on God for every breath I breathe and I am blessed to have family, friends and employees that I can depend on.

The blessings of God are undeserved, unearned and simply that, blessings.

But when it comes to depending on another person, it has to be a two way street, you have to be dependable too.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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