Ever since the 1930s, with the impetus provided by FDR, the people of the United States have increasingly turned to the government for help.  No matter what is needed, the government is pressured into providing it. There has to be something wrong in the heads of those who think that the earnings of one person should be extracted by force (of law) in order for part of those earnings to be given to others. If a citizen uses force to take from another it is a crime called robbery. But when the government does it, it is called compassion. In either case, it is wrong. But to justify the government wrong, many writers to Voices who deny God try to use the scriptures to justify the immoral takings.

A writer to Voices, May 30, 2008, didn’t use scripture, but he did appeal to “big daddy” government to help everyone out of their dilemma. It is reminiscent of the TV commercial wherein a man is so deep in debt that he needs help and at the end he says, “Somebody please help me,” or words similar. The lack of personal responsibility seeps from the letters to the same degree as the doofus in the commercial. If you get into an economic jam or any jam for that matter, it isn’t the government’s responsibility to bail you out of the mess you created for yourself.

The writer has fallen for the global warming hype, and as usual with the help me types, he wants the government to fix it because it is affecting the environment. The real problem with environment is the federal government not allowing responsible people to have dominion over nature. No, we must bow to the gods of nature, bugs, worms, birds, polar bears and idiots to name a few of the icons of the environmentalists.

He writes of a world food crisis. Yes, there is a crisis, but it is because of our government promoting ethanol and the dictators elsewhere destroying farms and farmers as is being done in Africa at the behest of the Communist dictator Mugabe. But government can stop the problem by getting out of the way and quit ordering things done that is none of their business. Does the writer not remember the limits on government listed in the Constitution?

A shortage of oil is next in his mindless screed. He wrote that there is an increasing demand for oil (true); stagnant supply lines (whatever that means) and decreasing reserves. Wrong! According to knowledgeable sources, there are hundreds of years of known crude oil reserves, but the all wise fools known as politicians in Congress won’t allow drilling. It will make the idiots known as environmentalists mad, not to mention losing their votes. All of us dumb people must be reminded from time to time that bugs, bears and votes are of the utmost importance.

Then he laments the health of the U.S. economy without laying the blame on the government, which strangles free enterprise with idiotic laws and rules that benefit no one.  Well, that isn’t exactly true. The laws benefit special interest groups interested in feathering their own nests at the expense of the rest of us. Who are the special interest groups? Mainly, it is the loudmouths who expect government to solve all the problems and politicians, who needing the votes of the loudmouths, are all too eager to solve the problems.

He mentions Social Security, which is going broke, but the liberals and the loudmouths refuse to allow common sense solutions to solve the problem because most of the good solutions won’t tax the rich to pay for the welfare of others. And remember, taxing the rich is written in stone as a commandment, and it would be a sin of great proportions not to extract every penny possible from the greedy industrious types who think they should keep most of what they earn. Shame must be laid onto all us greedy liberty loving people!

Never fear that anything would be left out of the missive. He wants national health insurance run by the same people who pillaged and plundered Social Security and who is responsible for the high prices of petroleum products. Along with the insurance idea he wails about many cuts in many major public aid services. Those cuts are good, but don’t say that too loudly since it will fill already overworked emergency rooms with liberal stroke victims up on hearing that federal aid might be reduced. How terrible of anyone to put thousands of people in medical peril with the mere mention of cutting federal programs.

He is wrong when he says he hasn’t seen the government do anything substantial. What they have done is substantially wrong by meddling in areas that are none of their business. (Sorry for the repetition, but the truth is the truth.) Now the man wants the government to take the initiative in solving the problems because the world is going to be very unfriendly if the government doesn’t address the issues. The government has taken all too much initiative as it is, thank you very much, and we are already well on the way to not only the world being unfriendly, but the United States as well, especially for those of us who love God and want to kick unconstitutional government out of our lives.

The Help Me pleas work both ways. I am tired of the whiners and complainers yelling for big government to help them, so Help Me spread the word to get rid of unconstitutional government. That is the correct initiative and the answer to our problems.

© 05-31-2008 DEC