Posted on 04/13/2017 8:05:37 AM PDT by Alex Baker
The moral sentiments of the population determine what political leaders are willing to do. The moral sentiments of a country may be consistent with reality or may be based on Utopian *fantasies, but, either way, they control public policy. To illustrate, lets examine the concepts “earn” and “deserve”. In reality, material products and human services are the product of human labor. Food and shelter, for example, do not exist in nature ready for your use. Medical care does not exist in nature. Humans must work to create these things. This is not a situation that was devised by mean people. This is not a situation that can be wished away. This is just reality. “Earning” the material things you desire means producing them by your labor or trading what you do produce in a free exchange with others for the things they produce. I will give you my eggs for your potatoes. Money was invented to make this exchange easier. “Earning” is the name given to your required productive effort. Personal responsibility is the name we give to the acceptance of reality’s demand that work is required to get the things we desire. In Americas past, this was a widely understood virtue. In America today, a corrupted concept of “deserve” has replaced the concept of “earn”. In its original usage, deserve meant to do things or show qualities worthy of reward or punishment. So, if you did all the things necessary to grow a crop, you earned the resulting harvest. Today, ‘deserve’ is completely divorced from that meaning. The remainder of this article continues with great analysis of challenges to American values and is worth your time.
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The moral sentiments of the population determine what political leaders are willing to do. The moral sentiments of a country may be consistent with reality or may be based on Utopian *fantasies, but, either way, they control public policy.
To illustrate, lets examine the concepts “earn” and “deserve”. In reality, material products and human services are the product of human labor. Food and shelter, for example, do not exist in nature ready for your use. Medical care does not exist in nature. Humans must work to create these things.
This is not a situation that was devised by mean people. This is not a situation that can be wished away. This is just reality. “Earning” the material things you desire means producing them by your labor or trading what you do produce in a free exchange with others for the things they produce. I will give you my eggs for your potatoes. Money was invented to make this exchange easier.
“Earning” is the name given to your required productive effort. Personal responsibility is the name we give to the acceptance of reality’s demand that work is required to get the things we desire. In Americas past, this was a widely understood virtue. In America today, a corrupted concept of “deserve” has replaced the concept of “earn”.
In its original usage, deserve meant to do things or show qualities worthy of reward or punishment. So, if you did all the things necessary to grow a crop, you earned the resulting harvest. Today, ‘deserve’ is completely divorced from that meaning.
The remainder of this article continues with great analysis of challenges to American values and is worth your time.
Too many egos and too many established Republicans. I still think Ryan and McConnell and the rest of the establishment are just biding their time and making sure Pres. Trump is not successful so they can once again assume the throne.
1. The laws of nature; and/or
2. The laws of economics
Politicians can't "fix" these "problems" any more than they can wish the Garden of Eden into existence. That doesn't stop people from thinking their elected leaders can, and that doesn't stop political candidates from pretending they can.
Too many RINOs in league with the Pervert Party.
Fixing big problems requires courage and smarts.
On both counts they’re in painfully short supply.
-—the new credo of many Americans-—”I want everything, I want it now and I want somebody else to pay for it”——
Many thanks for posting this excellent article on the destructive utopian mindset in our society. We are not on a good path.
-—the new credo of many Americans-—”I want everything, I want it now and I want somebody else to pay for it”——
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—the credo of many American politicians—”Vote for me and I will provide you everything you want.
Politicos of all stripes are the BIG problem.
-—yep—an obvious corollary of my statement-—
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