What do you expect?
March 7, 2009 by Sandra
What do you expect your government to do for you?
I have never expected them to see to it that I have a job…or health care benefits…or to loan me money when I need it.
I’ll admit there was a financially tough time in my life when I used the “WIC” program. While I appreciated it for a short time, never once did I EXPECT government to take care of me. When we qualified for a FHA mortgage and took advantage of it, we never EXPECTED government to have such a program. Whenever I needed a job, I got out there and found one! If my husband lost his job today, we would not EXPECT government to reimburse him, or to “find” him another job!
Let’s blow the cobwebs off our brains for a minute: Way back in American History class, didn’t we learn what our government’s job is? Didn’t we learn that what we should expect from our elected officials in Washington is to keep our borders and our liberties safe, and to empower each state to exercise it’s own right to govern it’s own people? That’s what it is.
So where did this new ideology come from? You know, the one that some Americans are demanding today: That government “better do something” to fix the unemployment rate; or that they want government to provide our health care benefits? Our Constitution never said that was their job!
Pursuing the “American Dream” is what’s brought millions of immigrants to America since the days of Columbus. We want to work the job of our choice. We want to make as much money as we can; And we want to spend and invest it as we see fit. We want to invent things. We want to run our own businesses. We want to choose the education best for our own children. These are the liberties we expect our government to protect, and not to interfere with!
How do we combat that mentality? Can we admit that government acting like a big “sugar daddy to the rescue” is not best for our country in the long run?
Sure. Take a look at how they’ve handled our Social Security money (they’ve squandered it all away) Or, consider how good they’re managing our public schools (add up the amount of money they dump into each one, and compare it to the graduation rates and levels of illeratacy in America.) How then, could you trust them to find you a job? Or provide your health care?
Do you really want government involved so intimately in your life? I sure don’t!
~Sandra
This is a very good post Sandra, and desrves the attention of every woman, man and child!
Too many people think that their “voice” in government ends with the elections of their chosen officials. On the contrary, it just starts! As christians, we need to flood our representitives ears with the voice of our concerns, which speaks so loudly to make secular concerns seem trivial. (The head not the tail, remember?)
Freedom of speech is a great thing, and on an individual level poses no threat to our religious liberties. There are though 2 “principalities and powers” that are the greatest threat to the moral fabric of our country, big business and psychology and psychiatry!
America is the greatest nation (aside from Israel) on this earth, but it will surely be a part of the apostacy that is to come, and is already upon us!