I wish I didn’t have to say it, but I’m troubled by many of the things I heard last night. Below is a quote from the President’s State of the Union address. ”America is leading the fight against disease. With your help, we’re working to cut by half the number of malaria-related deaths in 15 African nations. And our Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is treating 1.4 million people. We can bring healing and hope to many more. So I ask you to maintain the principles that have changed behavior and made this program a success. And I call on you to double our initial commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS by approving an additional $30 billion over the next five years.”
That really sounds great doesn’t it? “We the People” can help individuals who have AIDS. What sounds even better is that we’re going outside of our borders to provide this assistance. But let’s take a second and think outside the box. We’re going bankrupt. No matter how you shake it and run the numbers, we’re nearly broke as a nation. Why the heck are we sending $30 billion dollars more to another continent to treat people who aren’t our citizens? I’m all about being humanitarian, but I’m vehemently opposed to someone else taking my money by force and being humanitarian for me.
The leaders in government seem to underestimate the generosity of the people they represent. My wife and I give abundantly to charities that represent causes about which we are passionate. I can only imagine how much more we could give should we have more of our own money in our pockets. This is the essence of socialism.
Let’s just face it. They are taking money and property from the individual and redistributing it for the good of the whole. What’s even dumber is that we’re not distributing all of it to our own people. At least if we’re going to be socialist, let’s do it right. It seems that are government can’t do anything right.
I have a solution; provide for the common defense. Stop wasting money on all the different social welfare programs, entitlements and departments that don’t do that. The amount of money saved will be enormous. The tax burden would be lifted. The economy would go through the roof. Poverty would all but go away. But the most exciting thing is that the people of the United States would have plenty of money to take care of AIDS in Africa…
And the government would have one less thing to worry about screwing up.