Why should private enterprise exclude a social welfare state?
Private enterprise should exclude a welfare state because we need to understand the affects of our actions. If I drink and drink and destroy my liver - I should pay for the results of this. Why should anyone else pay for the results of my actions? Why should I be able to smoke and get lung cancer and have someone else pay for it? If I want to be lazy and not get an education and not deal with my problems and not develope relationships, that should be my problem - not yours or anyone else's.
So long as a single citizen cannot afford medical care then that society is in want. So long as people live on the streets and eat from refuse bins then that is the mark of a failed society.
Really? Jesus told us we would always have the poor with us because we would always have personal sin. Welfare benefits have only increased addiction and sin, not decreased it.
Let us take the Scandinavian countries as an example: The place where Volvos and Saabs were made, and where their system by any American standards would be considered "Evil Socialist". Do you think they were suffering? Their standard of education was higher and life expectancy higher than America. Their economies were stable and people enjoyed 1 month long yearly holidays. Obviously this system worked!
Are you serious? I met an ex-Swede just three years ago who was in law enforcement. He left Sweden because so many guns are pouring into that country that he and his extended family are leaving as fast as they can.
The propaganda that Americans have endured for decades where the very mention of the word "Socialism" conjured up in their imagination scenes from Dantes hell, has made a deep impact in American society.
Thank God Americans are fighting socialism. We as Canadians simply sat back and accepted irresponsibility and did not fight at all for accountability. The world bankers had no problem with Canadians.
I have no problem with that but the fact that Friedman's model of Neo Liberalism was exported to the rest of the world.
Believe me, the problems in real society at the level I work at (try to spend a year away from public servants to clear your mind of their crap) have nothing to do with neo-liberalism or CEO's. The store I work at has a hard enough time simply dealing with theft and laziness and people lying about returns and worker's rights and workers taking sick days off when they aren't sick and worker's disobeying their supervisors. We have to buy almost all of our products from China because they know how to work hard and can produce affordable products. We have to put up with personal income taxes and taxes at all levels of marketing just to feed the welfare state. The CEO of my company, a company in the top 10 or 15 retailers of Canada, makes around a million a year. That's pittance for all of the cares and worries he deals with. No one cares about Neo Liberalism or even wants to know about it. They just want to survive. Factories and job sites in Ontario employ illegal immigrants under the table just to stay alive otherwise almost all business would leave Ontario.
Neo Liberalism is destroying the middle class. It is destroying family ties, religious customs, national identities and all for what? So that some filthy rich speculators can become even more rich?
Personal irresponsibility and selfishness and socialism destroy families and cultures. It has nothing to do with speculators. For centuries parents took care of children and children took care of parents. Now social workers are invading families just to keep their budgets and children are turning against parents. Parents are abandoning their responsibilities for a welfare cheque. It's disgusting and the social workers are sitting back enjoying their high income as a result and deluding themselves that they are so important.
It is hubris to state that only CEOs are educated enough. Lest you forget; We can live without the CEOs but can they live without us?
We cannot live without authority. This is the problem with the left. You honestly think there is such a thing as equality and egalitarianism in the world. You think that we actually have rights. When I go to work, I don't "work with" my boss, I obey him. And he obeys his boss. Everyone has a different sphere of responsibility. Children obey their parents, drivers obey driving laws, ministers obey the Bible, workers obey their bosses, CEO's obey the investors, investors obey whom they are supposed to. When I walk into a woman's house, I obey that woman who is in charge of that house. When I lived in the shelter I had to obey the shelter workers even if they tried to delude me with my "rights". We have to obey the laws of God and of nature. To have millions of people on social benefits obeying no one is to create unmitigated diseastor.
Bankers and speculators are no better than the drug barons of Colombia.
But you obligate society to them when you are part of that group of people putting our country into debt to them. I agree that they are no better than the drug barons (but you insist on giving welfare money to drug addict after drug addict to support these drug barons). The left will never deal with the bankers because you need them and they need you.
They are the thugs of modern societies and their time will soon come for we do not want to eat cake!
I was taking to an ex-nurse the other day. We both agreed strongly that all of those welfare addicts that waste years of their lives on the dole sitting around doing nothing are the biggest problem in the world. Many, many, many people are sick and tired of those bloodsuckers and their time will come and probably by the hand of one of their own.
Where, by the way, do you get your news? If you get your news from major news sources and government circles, from other government workers and your union, you might want to reconsider. Whenever I speak with government employees, they are usually so out of touch with life in the main that it's impossible to carry on a conversation. And people in the government who understand real life have told me that their fellows are usually so out of touch with reality that they keep conversation down to a bare minimum. I'm not lieing when I say these things. I hear crazy stories about what happens in the government and I meet many who have left the government with all of its cradle to the grave benefits just so that they can face real life.
Where is your sense of personal responsibility? Where is sacrifice and love and where is reality? Where is the love of Christ and the acceptance of our crosses that we must bear. Jesus did not stand up for any of His rights. He submitted totally to the Father and we should also do the same thing. We should be like him.
Jesus said in Luke 17:10, "So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.'" We are Christ's slaves. This is a daily challenge to me. What does God want me to do? Am I being faithful? Am I being thankful? Am I being responsible? Am I loving my fellow man? There is nothing in my relationship with God that deals with rights and shaking the fist at authority and going on strike and being envious of those who make more money than I do. Nothing at all.
How are you enslaving yourself to God? How is bearing your own cross going? Are you getting to know Christ?
You sound like one since you believe in perpetual sacrifice!
There goes the neighbourhood!
