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Whose entitled to what? Who is entitled to what and what does the term entitlements mean? If you take a good look at what has happened to America, the biggest culprit is our entitlement mentality. We are all guilty of some type of entitlement wish. Every where you look there are organizations to join that promise you a voice in government, or it could just be your membership in Aarp. Why do you belong? In most cases people belong to get benefits from the government. Many people are asking our government for free medical, Free education, for free housing and free food. Ask the average American under 50 today and they will say these are entitlements. Who made them entitlements? There are strings attached to each benefit we get from our government, strings that make us more and more dependent on government.

It’s the fallacy that we all are entitled to houses, that brought down the housing financial world. You can’t give people what they haven’t earned and expect them to respect it. It’s the fallacy that we are all entitled to medical benefits, that has ruined many a company just trying to survive. The cost of medical insurance is so high because of the fact that so many frivolous lawsuits have had huge monetary awards at the expense of the companies. The jury of their peers felt that the victim needed to have millions of dollars for the loss of a finger in an accident. I don’t know about you but if someone offered me a million dollars for a single finger, I’d hand it to them with the bloody knife still in my hand. I sure wouldn’t feel that I was entitled to it. We have families, who have been on the welfare roles for decades, why are they there? Because they feel they are entitled, the government told them they were. Our government made quotas for higher education and federal hiring practices, were these people always qualified? No but the system said they were entitled.

I don’t want to sound like a scrooge but who do you think has paid for all these things? Me, that’s who, and I have never so much as drawn unemployment in my life. You know what, I’m tired of paying everybody’s way. I was taught at an early age that we were lucky to be born in America because we have 3 basic rights no other country had; The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I was taught that they weren’t free rights either, if needed, we were expected to fight for the first two rights,and the third one meant courting a wife and that never came cheap.

Who was the dummy who made up all these new rights that have broken our system? Does the term New Deal or Great Society or War on Poverty come to mind? I’m going to para-phrase this next statement because I don’t have the actual quote in front of me; In 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor) made the following statement; A democracy will only last about 200 years, because when it’s people find out that they can vote themselves money from the treasury, they will and it will destroy the whole concept of democracy. Think about it, this was stated just 11years after our Declaration of Independence was made. I wonder how many new rights or shall we say entitlements will come out from the administration in the next week.

And that’s my opinion,
Don

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