[MD] Unreality of Equality

[Ham Priday]

Hi SA --

> [Your] statement seems to highlight the
> problems of the static quality oozing from this
> culture.  Why static quality?  Well, you provided
> answers and how many of these people involved
> in deprived situations will heed your resolutions
> and find a way to gain self-control, families
> becoming more nurturing, etc..., thus, the dynamic
> quality of this current culture in which change
> would be just around the corner?  You don't have
> to answer that, it was more of a statement than an
> actual question.

It may have been a rhetorical question, unless you believe that a community
'coming to the rescue' is introducing dynamic quality to the situation.  (I
have some problems with that analysis.)

It is apparent to me that every creature comes into this world with the
biological organism  and instinctual responses to survive.  In the case of
man, survival is more than just keeping himself alive.  Man is a "social
animal"; at a certain age the individual is expected to free himself from
parental dependence and utilize his intellect and value discernment to seek
his fortune.  As prerequisites for this, there must be the "will to
survive", a degree of self-determination, and an acquired skill by which one
can make a contribution.  When a person lacks one of these assets for any
reason, he poses a problem for society.

In earlier times, a healthy and sane person who didn't measure up to these
minimal requirements was considered "irresponsible" or just plain "lazy".
Such terms are regarded as demeaning today.  In the politically correct
world, we now say that such a person is "disadvantaged" or a "victim of
familial deprivation", the implication being that it's society's fault and
that therefore society should "take care" of him.  That kind of egalitarian
ideology is not only politically INCORRECT, it has led to an economic crisis
in which entitlements are the largest segment of our tax base.

I don't see this as a quality problem requiring a quality solution.  It's a
matter of common sense and societal responsibility.  It's what happens to
the value of earned income when the state appropriates it for redistribution
to society at large.  The simple truth is that America can no longer afford
to support the welfare of its burgeoning population at "acceptable" levels
and remain a leader in the world community.  In a letter written to James
Madison in 1789, George Washington said, "No generation has a right to
contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own
existence."

Consider these facts.  Since 1990, 80% of today's domestic financial-sector
debt increased 2.5 times faster than growth of the economy, while household
debt increased 50% faster. During the same period the federal government
siphoned off $2.2 trillion of trust fund surpluses, creating new un-funded
IOUs (the total IOUs now stand at $3.1 Trillion, with no budgeted pay-off).
Our $7.9 trillion and growing national debt is being financed by money
borrowed from foreign countries like China and Saudi Arabia.  What happens
when these countries begin to realize they're investing in a sinking ship?
Well, you can forget about the homeless and poverty-stricken; America will
be a bankrupt nation beholden to the rest of the world for its own survival.

Cheers,
Ham