While I was growing up we referred to our government as Uncle Sam. I think that was because our uncles sometimes helped us when we needed a hand. It was usually true of our uncles helping us when in need. It was also true of Uncle Sam giving us a hand when we needed it. Uncle Sam had a limited unemployment program to help us while we looked for another job. There was limited welfare during the 1950's and early 1960's. I call this the era of "Uncle Sam."
Landon Johnson took us into the era of "Daddy Sam." Some refer to government as Big Brother Government but we can't in this case because it would be incestuous. This is because the government became the "daddy" of the family. Daddy Sam provided for the single mother and if a "daddy" lived in the house she would lose her benefits. Now everyone knows that the government can't procreate but once a single woman has a baby, or another and another, Daddy Sam will step in and support all the children as long as the procreator doesn't live in the house. Well we all know that the single mother gets lonely for male companionship and doesn't follow the rules so she may have multiple procreators. She just keeps her live-in from Daddy Sam.
I would like for you to give some thought to how long you think our society can exist with the Daddy Sam concept. Illegitimate births among all Americans have risen from 26% in 1990 to 41% today. The numbers for Hispanic is 53%, blacks 73% and whites 29%. This increase in illegitimacy is the primary reason that government budgets, both federal and state, are so out of control. We cut our national defense budget but our welfare budget is strictly off limits!
The Heritage Foundation reports that 77 types of federal means-tested handouts already cost $522 billion per year before Obama took office. He increased this giant amount to $697 billion per year in the first half of his term. This means that half of Americans depend for their living expenses in whole or part on Daddy Sam handouts which are paid for by the other half who pay income taxes.
That was exactly what Obama planned to do when he told Joe the Plumber he wanted to redistribute the wealth. He told Chicago's WBEZ-FM that his favorite Supreme Court Chief Justice, Earl Warren wasn't radical enough because the Warren Court "never ventured into the issue of redistribution of wealth."
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them. (Benjamin Franklin, letter to Collinson, May 9, 1753
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, etc. and in continual ill-humour. (Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771)
Estimates are that, over the next decade, the federal government will spend $7.5 trillion on means-tested welfare and that's in addition to the nearly $200 billion a year doled out by the states. The Heritage Foundation figures don't even count the social and fiscal costs of the drugs, sex suicide, school dropouts, runaways and crime that come mostly from female-headed households.
Now California and some other states are mandating the teaching of homosexuality and other alternative lifestyles in eliminatory school. Prayer and any form of Christianity is banned from our schools but teaching Muslim is required.
Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814)
I fear for our country! I fear that we have put the loaded pistol to our heads, cocked it and the only thing left is for us pull the trigger! Will we do that or will we reverse our society and government?
Right from Springville ...
