On August 5, 2015, Charlie Daniels writes on CNSNews:
Charity – the act of giving money, food, or other kinds of help to people who are poor, sick.
Federal entitlements, regardless of whatever clever antonym or fancy bureaucratic name they go by are actually charity, or at least that is what they started out as.
I believe in charity, but sometimes I think I have a much different definition than many people, and definitely a different definition from the one the government operates on. However, what the government practices is not actually charity, but patronage.
Now put aside your politics, your political correctness, your automatic rhetorical responses and answer these questions honestly.
Is any able-bodied person entitled to spend their lives sponging on the federal or state dole while you work hard to make a living and pay the taxes that support them?
Does anybody have the right to bring children into this world and walk away without ever paying a cent for their support, leaving the cost of their upbringing to the taxpayers?
If your answers to the two above questions was no, then you should be as angry, disgusted and disillusioned as I am. I’m fed up with the bogus disability claims and men who father scores of children and are never held accountable for their welfare.
There are men who go through life carelessly fathering dozens of children who will never even know his name. They leave behind whole families of underprivileged kids who will never have a decent chance at life, raised in a hard scrabble, hand-to-mouth existence, in an environment where dodging bullets is a way of life and the local drug dealer is the most respected person in the neighborhood.
People say that we’ve gone so far into the entitlement direction that there is no way to rectify it, but actually, there is a very simple way to fix this problem.
To qualify for public assistance, the mother of the child should be required to identify the father, a simple task in this era of DNA testing. The father then either supports his children, all his children, or goes to jail until they all reach the age of majority.
If he has fathered multiple children, then he should have multiple jobs. No copouts, and no exceptions.
Just start this program, let the word get around and watch the birth rate of fatherless children fall like a brick.
There are some who draw a disability check from the government and then go out and participate in sports and other strenuous exercises, no more disabled than a racehorse.
That person – after medical exams to prove the sham – should be taken off assistance, spend a year in jail and be forced to pay back the money they’ve already been paid.
Drastic measures?
Absolutely, but things have gone so far that nothing less than drastic measures will ever turn it around.
There is an eventual price to pay for socialism and politicians who consider the federal treasury to be their own personal piggy bank to be used as additional campaign funds and public relations. They buy votes and good will for their party on any whimsical foolishness they can push through Congress.
Social Security funds should be identified, locked away and never allowed to be touched by profligate politicians.
Every time you buy a gallon of gas you are paying into a fund that is supposed to maintain the highways. But take it from one who spends around 125 nights a year up and down the highways of America, a lot of our interstates and federally maintained highways are like washboards with pot holes.
What happened to the highway money?
The truth of the matter is folks, our federal government officials, both parties included, have proven themselves incapable of handling public funds. They cannot police the double-dipping welfare cheats without the guts to face down any problem that could possibly cost them votes.
If Social Security had been handled by investing part of everybody’s assessments in the private sector, with the government forbidden to touch it, the program would be fat and solvent now, actually capable of sustaining a good lifestyle for retirees.
If the highway funds could actually be put into a lock box and honestly handled without political patronage and cronyism, our highways would be in perfect condition.
If the welfare and Medicare cheats were identified, prosecuted and jailed, that problem would soon go away.
We are fast coming down to having, for all practical purposes, a one party system in America. This party is neither Democrat or Republican, but a hybrid, socialist in policy and so big that bureaucracies are tripping all over each other. Stupid regulations cripple and alienate industry, and the entitlement roles and the national debt grows by leaps and bounds.
We are due a day of reckoning.
And make no mistake about it, it’s coming.
What do you think?
Country singer Charlie Daniels pretty well sums up the anguished sentiments of millions of Americans who feel their extracted taxes are supporting people who are taking advantage, creating never-ending “double-dipping welfare” support, and basically living off the productivity of the vast majority of productive citizens, albeit ONLY by way of a job and personal income taxes.
Daniels makes excellent points throughout this piece, and his solutions with respect to personal lack of responsibility and corrupt elective government representative present a perspective shared by millions of Americans who are fed up.
But what is missing is a NECESSARY plan that will result in making EVERY citizen a productive contributor to our society, ending forever the unnecessary reliance on government (us) dependency and providing government with a strong and growing tax base to support the collective infrastructure and service needs of our society.
The real solution to the dependent “cheats” and the wage trap is to turn EVERY citizen into a capital OWNER, so that they can produce with both their labor and the productive capital assets of corporations they OWN. This also entitles them to a share of profits commensurate with their respective OWNERSHIP stakes in the corporations growing the economy. If EVERY citizen, without the requirement of past savings or income, purchases shares, using insured, interest-free capital credit, in a corporation or a portfolio of corporations corresponding to NEW productive capital formation, and pays for them with FUTURE profits (dividends), widespread ownership can be accomplished without taking one cent out of existing savings, or reducing take-home pay by a single dime (for those working). The result would be to rapidly accelerate the economy’s growth, creating not only millions of jobs but most importantly empowering EVERY child, woman, and man to become a productive capital owner, and with time fully self-supportive financially.
Under the proposed Capital Homestead Act, the estimate is that the economy would turn around in approximately 18 to 24 months, reaching REAL full employment within 3 to 5 years. Assuming that the typical capital credit acquisition loan was paid off in 9 to 10 years or less, there would be massive infusions of new demand entering the economy almost from the inception of a program. This would greatly increase profits, and — assuming a reasonable share of those profits (after operational costs) were distributed in a profit-sharing program the result would be further increase demand in the economy.
It thus makes sense to start demanding and advocating for broadened personal wealth-creating, income-producing capital OWNERSHIP — and profit sharing. Let’s move to an OWNERSHIP CULTURE and a FUTURE economy that can support general affluence for EVERY child, woman, and man wherein everybody benefits and no one is harmed or is dependent on others or the State.
