Rotten meat can't be inspected by states or locals? I find that odd since we have county "Departments of Environmental Health," we have a "Retail Food Code" in CA, we have "Registered Environmental Health Specialists" doing inspections to make sure state and local laws are adhered too. Do they really think food-related inspections are all handled by the FDA? Wow. They're morons.
Mortgage a home to care for grandma? Actually that's something people are pressured to do now by the unscrupulous "progressive" "social safety net." When I was growing up, I helped take care of my grandmother in her last years just as she'd taken care of me in my earliest years. Like my mother before me, I was a parental caregiver as well. This is what responsible people do. It's what families do.
It wasn't all on me, of course. Born into poverty and orphaned by 13, my father was not well educated. However, through hard work and initiative, my father ensured he and my mother had health coverage, retirement income, insurance and so on. He tasked himself to be the prime bread winner while she managed the finances and, when children came, she left work to focus on child rearing. Through complementary tension, they handled their roles very well. It's how successful families function. When local public schools were a clear failure, they sacrificed niceties like vacations and vast wardrobes to put us through private schools.
We've always donated to charities to help those in need and do so quietly, without fanfare. I've volunteered because I was moved to do so, not because of some government edict or diploma requirement. Our neighbors helped us and we helped them. This is what I see as conservative's America.
Dependence upon the federal government is akin to slavery. Self-styled "progressives" want this nation to be a giant plantation. Real individual liberty is stolen while base behaviors are not only treated permissively but rewarded. The family unit is undermined in favor of collectivism and state dependence. Parents are undermined by direct relationships between government bureaucrats and children.
Public education and the "progressive" programs train us not to think of our selves in relation to one another in family and community, not to think of our own can-do initiative but to think of ourselves as wards of the state in need of coddling by our self-appointed betters.
As an aside, I want to reject the idea of "giving back to the community." That thinking presupposes you have a debt to pay to the collective whole and, by extension, the state. Progressives would like us all to think that way because debt is subjugating, more like serfs than freedmen.
Well said.