Where Increasing Socialism Will Take This Country

Let me explain my take on the story in the previous post. In my opinion taxes should be used for only the necessities such as maintaining a military, courts, disaster relief, economic stability, intelligence agencies, police, fire departments, schools, and various other bureau’s and departments that work for the common good of every one. In stead of letting the people in this country put their money into stocks and investments that help us expand economically we just keep siphoning it off it to things such as welfare and all of these other government subsidies. As I have said in my post on my Theory of Emigration, over time there will be fewer and fewer jobs in this country due to increased automation and mechanization. That being so we can keep increasing government payments to the people without jobs, watch those numbers continue to grow and carry an increasing deadweight around, a massive economic burden for those with jobs or we can simply say no and allow our country to flourish economically.

For those of you who have heard the old adage “Give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him for a year” I believe the teaching has been done, we have public schools, collages give scholarships, student loans are available, any one with some motivation can get the education they need to bring in all the fish they want. So keeping in line with the adage, rather than force hard working fishermen to give out more and more of their catch every day until they are brought down to the level of those getting the free fish, we can stop giving them out. Without free fish (government subsidies) people will be motivated to fish for themselves (get a job) and for those who find it to difficult to fish in this pond (America) they can go somewhere else (another country, emigrate for a better life just like the ancestors of everyone who migrated here).

Why do people immigrate to America? Cause we kick ass? While some may say so I don’t think people move around the world just to live in a country that they consider cool. How about because we are a democracy? For some one living in the lower societal rungs of another country our concepts of democracy and personal liberty are intangible, so why? Because of the fair system we have for social mobility, an honest shot to make a better life for your self and your family. We are not the only country where people live comfortably, even in 3rd world countries there are people living high above the rest. However in those countries the system for social mobility is not fair and it is very hard to move up. The class system in the US is like a mountain, our laws and regulations make sure that everyone is allowed to climb up or down at their own pleasure. We educate people in public schools and give people the opportunity to learn how to effectively scale this social mountain.

In the case of the mountain, if all of the people at the bottom cling to the ropes of those on the top they will pull them down and then no one will reach the summit. Let us continue to have a free and socially mobile America, every one has a fair shot to climb the economic mountain, and no one is forced to be pulled back down by some one who doesn’t fell like climbing it themselves.