Oh, The Poor Children

Most of us know that a free marketplace, unencumbered by government “help” could take care of the current financial “crisis”.  Indeed, we know that a free marketplace could take care of most all financial problems, just as it is the most honest arbiter when shortages occur, just as it is the most amazing vehicle for the creation of wealth and prosperity that humankind has even known.

Well, you say, if a free marketplace is all that great, then why don’t we just sit back, reduce taxes and regulations, and let it do its magic?   Simple question, simple answer — because the marketplace, like nature itself, is faultlessly generous to those who get it right, but very severe in its treatment of those who get it less than right.

Being the spoiled Americans we have become, we want a hybrid form of both marketplace and nature.  That is, we want unlimited rewards when we get it right while being shielded from any discomfort or inconvenience when we get it less than right.  Now, a thinking person would know this cannot be.  But, a government that values the power to govern more than doing the right thing for those who created it will try to convince us it has the power to make this hybrid bit of nonsense come true.  And, the non-thinking among us eat it up like hogs eating slop.

And, what is the main reason used to justify this attempt to pervert both marketplace and nature?  The “children”.  My oh my, what will happen to the children if we let nature or marketplace take it course?  Well, the obvious answer is that they will suffer to varying extents.  While this is regrettable, and no sane person actually wants to see a child suffer, there is an element of reality that must enter the thought process.  The most obvious element of reality in this particular instance is this:  if you are born to, or in the care of, people who allow themselves to remain ignorant, uncaring, and/or dependent on government or other dangerous and addictive substances, you are going to suffer.  And, this will be true without regard to the handouts and empty promises of a dishonest government.

When children are born and raised in such environments, only the strong survive and only extraordinary come out of it as “normal” citizens.  And, those that do, do so by their own effort and determination, in spite of government, not because of it.

Bottom line, these pleas based on suffering children are calculated to get your acceptance of programs that, ultimately, continue the suffering into generations not yet even born.

It is good to have compassion for children and to help them when and where you can.  But do this directly while understanding that the “welfare state” exists solely for the welfare of the state.

Get mad.  Don’t put up with it!

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