When earning and having become decoupled, new rights can be found everywhere. For example, many supporting universal healthcare claim it should be a right. Since there is no longer a connection between getting and earning (hello $1.85T deficit!), they can claim anything as a right.
We loved the above from KT because it sums up perfectly what’s at the core of a culture that wants everything but doesn’t want to pay for it.
We’ve become a nation of 4 yr. olds aided and abetted by a political class that reasons just as we do.
KT has more on our statist quest for stability at the expense of economic growth, here.
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Thanks! My blogging has fallen off in quantity and quality lately as we set up the Catican and attend to more trivial matters such as providing life support for the human servants of the Maximum Leader. I'm glad you liked that one.
My dad's been reading my blog all along and he asked me to restrain my nastier side when it comes to the political posts. I'm trying to do that while posting my musings. Hopefully it won't come out like total mush.
Here's another comment that I will work into a much larger post tomorrow.
Morality is simple when there is only one dimension to the problem. That is, if you run over a duckling on an otherwise carless road while driving slow enough to get out of the way, people can ask you with indignity, "Why did you do that?"
That's where we are right now. Since we've decoupled having from earning, everything that the underclass needs can be demanded from society at large as there is no other consideration besides need.
However, if you pose the question this way: "Shall we give health care to the poor and further burden our children with debt or shall we try to relieve our children of the debt we have laid upon them and allow the poor to suffer?" the issue becomes much murkier.
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