No free lunch!

I buy you lunch. We are friends and you drove today so I feel it is fair, with the cost of gas, that I pick up your lunch tab. We both feel fine with this transaction.
But what if I buy you lunch every Friday even when I drive myself. Do you think you start expecting it? Now let's say I ask you to drive me to the airport at 5 am. Would you be able to
say no?

When the government gives a person something, the initial intention may just be to help when someone is in a tight spot. (This is the kind of thing that mostly churches and charitable organizations and good neighbors used to do.)
When someone is willing to give you something you should ask why. Government has no money unless it takes it from someone. So when it takes from one and gives to another it is to gain power over both. The side effect is resentment of the givers against the government for taking what they have earned and of the receivers against those who have more than they perceive themselves to have. This sets up the government as benevolent and compassionate, when in fact it is simply controlling both groups by using them against each other and using
their money and freedom to do so.

If I buy your lunch with money I took from my neighbor, to whom would you say thank you?
You don't know my neighbor so you wouldn't thank him? What if he needs the money for his own lunch? What do I get out of this? If I call you to take me to the airport at 5 am wouldn't you feel obliged to take me? So I get a benefit without it costing ME anything. You are beholden to me and I only had to be willing to take the money from someone else to get the benefit.

Now if government takes from someone else and gives it to you, don't you feel beholden to
government? You don't think about the neighbor who gave government the money you are receiving. You think of the government as the source of the money and that you
don't have to do anything except keep the same government in place to keep the money coming. This makes you dependent on government and not too likely to be able to
change things. Isn't that the definition of slavery?

Where is the incentive to work for the money? This kind of thinking is simply deadly. When you are willing to give up being responsible for taking care of yourself you are giving up your freedom to make your own way and your own choices. You simply survive when you are not providing for yourself. Surely there is the possibility of making mistakes but you learn from mistakes. The chance that you will improve life for yourself and your family is not likely if you don't have control. And how can you have control if you are not earning for yourself? The guy with the money makes the rules. And even if you are one of those making the money, government takes a large chunk of it from you to give to your neighbor who will not be thanking you.

The best way for all of us to live to the maximum is for each of us to be allowed to make our own choices leaving government to only the jobs intended by the Constitution. We have forgotten that government under our Constitution does not have the power to allow us to do things, but has our permission to do only certain things. And we are not teaching that to our children with any real clarity or they would be furiously screaming about what they face in their future.

We must make choices about everyday issues, such as what to eat, what to buy, what to listen to, what to say, what to wear, what to believe, where we may go and where we may take a risk, then we will be risk-takers and free-thinkers and self-sufficient citizens again. The threats of law suits and regulation handcuff us and take away our initiative before we can begin a path of discovery or invention. Currently government has tightened down on us to keep us needing or being used to help support the needy. It is stifling for both: it stifles the spirit of the needy by making them believe they can't take care of themselves, thus enslaving them; and it stifles the enthusiasm of the others who know they will only get to keep a very small portion of what they reap, no where near what they sow, and therefore feeling foolish for striving.

The American spirit which is the reason we are the
greatest system of government in the history of the world is trying to regain the footing of years past. We are chafing at the restraints and encumbrances that have grown on us like barnacles.
The weight of it all has become too much and we are finally saying NO MORE. The "correctness" of the past few decades has choked us from saying so but we still believe in America and will not apologize for her. I believe that there are enough of us around who still remember the way we used to feel and long for that again. It won't be easy and it won't be fast. My generation had a huge part in the breakdown of our values and principles. I so want to be of the generation that pulls us back from the edge of decline and ignites the renewal of our great Nation.