America´s Dependencies

The overwhelming direction of the United States is toward dependency. Dependency on what or whom doesn´t seem to much matter. The 2008 election of a politicians promising to allow more dependency based on redistribution schemes and entitlements that can´t be paid for was a significant testimonial to this trend. When the argument for universal health care ignores all the failures in other countries and states that have tried it you know the mentalities addressing this issue are blinded by wishes of getting something for nothing. Couple this with a political mindset that knows the way to the voters heart is through the promise of taking from someone else and somehow giving benefit to all ( except perhaps the haughty rich footing the bill).

The dependency is not just for "free" government benefits but a dependency for mind altering drugs ballooning from smuggling from Mexico. This demand is a passive attitude that places short term gratification of escape ahead of long term planning and evasion of adverse consequences. This in essence is the commonality of the druggies and the entitlement seekers. As this attitude spreads more and more people look to someone else for whatever can be provided to alleviate their distaste for independent thought and action. This country´s most significant founding document is the Declaration of Independence. It was written for a nation that was besieged by irrational demands from Britain to be subservient. The rebellion ignited a spirit evident in the self reliance required by the new nation. There were no social workers to meddle and hand out redistribution "goodies´. There were no pompous politicians with mobs of unthinking followers telling the populace of the security they could have from redistribution schemes. There was only the individual who thought and acted as if everything in his future depended on him and him only. Of course there were dependent oriented individuals looking for a free ride but the primary mover of the country was the independent self reliant seeker of self made fortune.

Today we have the seekers of government bailouts, the seekers of government healthcare, the seekers of government loans, the seekers of government grants, the seekers of government social services, the seekers of government food stamps, the seekers of government special favors and the seekers of government solutions to problems that government can only compound. Expectations from an agency whose primary method of operation is force has led to the fear that an all controlling government can inflict. The government that does for you can also do to you.

The dependent´s cry of, " I couldn´t help it" or " it isn´t my fault, I had no choice" is total bunk. Please see my article, " Its not Addiction, Its Choice" at http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/21604 . The argument of Lee Ioccoca that the government saving Chrysler was the "only game in town" was as phony then as it is today. That statement was a declaration that the free market is over, failure unacceptable and government intervention in the market will save the world. It only temporarily saved Chrysler and will have us all in rickshaws before they´re through.

The tea parties were a display of frustration which largely went unnoticed by those intent on their mission of socialism undeclared. There was no unifying message which is ineffectual. The target was government but a muted cry that government should do more with less and save the economy. The government cannot save the economy. The government does not run a business and doesn´t operate on business principles. It is essential to protect businesses from the initiation of force but when it implements what it is supposed to prevent it becomes a powerful criminal element disguised as a benefactor. Much like the mob protects the local grocery the government "protects´ the market.

Will America arise from the ashes of her downfall and regenerate the spirit of independence required to put government in its place? Only if there is a recognition that government as it is now structured needs a revision that will make politicians as we know them today obsolete. We do not and did not need people to get sanction from dependent minded voters to redistribute wealth. Earning and keeping what you earn is the independent way. If you do not own what you earn you cannot use it for what you need or want. If private property is slid under the door to any beggar with a tear in his eye then dependency is king. This is not the new world but an old world of dependency and redistribution that is as old as the history of man. The beggars have cried greed when someone dared arise above their station. The politicians bellowed and echoed as they rode in limousines, ate caviar and told the mangers of enterprises they would fire them if they did not do as they wished. Did any one of the dependent voters see what had happened? Did they see that the greed they had denounced was now in the hands of the politicians and was no longer called ´greed´ but stature? Just as the economics the politicians proposed changed deficit spending into "investments" and will not admit to the socialism it is, the affluence they demand and flaunt is simply supposed to be taken for granted.

Being dependent on the dishonorable and dishonest is a fool´s game. If you cannot trust your benefactor ( who happens to be an agent of redistribution) you are at the mercy of the capriciousness of mob outcries. Asking for thieves to provide you with your needs is expecting their victims to never rebel or quit. The dependents like the politicians think they can get away with it but more and more people are now realizing the end is getting closer and they may just not get away with it. The outrageous spending found to be a mortgage on the future of offspring has awakened many who thought the scheme was innocuous. The" saving" of Iraq, the" saving "of Somalia, the saving of every country has put the most vulnerable country in need of saving the United States of America. That would be self serving and we have mushed ourselves into apologies for our achievements, self imposed guilt for not being as impoverished as the third world countries that still preach and practice dependency and futilely stand by and watch missile development, uranium enrichment and threats.

The shores we invaded to free countries in the past had as an ideal the transformation of our way of life to theirs. Today we reach out to say we are willing to accept your ways if you will only like us. We do not need to be liked by countries that violate our founding principles and human rights. Friends that admire us and our ways are the only kind of friends we should desire. We have nothing to apologize for. We only need to stand on our own two feet and expect the world to follow suit. First we must demonstrate that we haven´t forgotten how.