2006 Soap Box Archives

Dead Beats 06/23/06

I have my own shortcomings, many of them and I’m pretty understanding toward others who have them too. In fact, I can put up with a lot but one of the things I simply cannot stand is a man who fathers a child and doesn’t support it.

I know you high minded intellectuals and bleeding heart lung and liver types think that the trouble in this nation is caused by a don’t care society and a calloused government, that the problems would just go away if we threw enough money at it and built enough rehab centers and counseling classes.

Well first of all, the breakdown is in society itself, the great society as Lyndon Johnson called it. Now I’m not saying that President Johnson didn’t mean well when he started all these welfare programs designed to help raise the standard of living for some of America’s poorest citizens.

What I’m saying is that it simply hasn’t worked and we are in our
third generation of welfare families who have figured out how to work the system. The more children, the bigger the check.

And what happens to the children? Many of them live in a family with several siblings with different fathers and the poor little things don’t even know who he is.

So many of these children are just turned out on the mean streets of a city to fend for themselves, to learn the seamier side of life and join criminal street gangs.

When the girls are in their early teens they start getting regularly pregnant and the whole process begins another generation of welfare dependents.

It’s a vicious cycle and one that desperately needs to be broken up. Give people jobs not checks, give them fishing poles, not fish.
Make them responsible for their own lives by working for a living like the rest of the world does.

We are doing an incaculable injustice to these people to allow this fallacy to continue decade after decade. It only fosters more dependence and it’s a drain on the public coffers.

A man or boy who fathers a child should be forced to pay for
its upkeep until it reaches the age of majority. No exceptions, and if he has more children than he can support with one job let him get three jobs, work seven days a week or whatever it takes.

A man who turns his back on his family or walks away and leaves his offspring for society to raise is not a man and should not be treated as one and I don’t care how many A.C.L.U. slugs crawl out of the wall and accuse me of recommending slave labor. Going to work everyday and taking care of your children you’ve brought into the world is not slave labor. It’s a responsibility and if you’re not man enough to do it you should be forced to.

If you don’t want to support children keep your pants zipped up.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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