Improved Clinch

Noted, With A Personal Shame

Something for nothing…

Billy Beck notes the following quote, posted at The New Libertarian, and taken from some Slashdot discussion thread.

"In all honesty, I’d be more than happy if the government could help me live a decent life with me working less."

The above, is just a portion of the full quote posted, but it is the portion that caught my eye, and it caught my eye because of something I did at one point in my life, and which I relate with embarrassment, and a sense of shame. I collected unemployment. Meaning I chose to suck on the government’s tit, because I was too lazy to go out and do one of the easiest things there is to do in life. Earn a living and support myself.

Read that quote and consider these words, ”...if the government could help me..." This government; bandied about and appealed to, as if it is some deep pocketed, independently wealthy sugar daddy; is nothing more than a consumer of individuals’ private wealth. A coercer of wage earners, for individuals who dream of the good life, on the backs of the individuals who apply themselves to removing their own personal uneasiness, without an appeal to the government for relief from reality.

Is there no shame?

Billy titled his post “Paging Frederick Bastiat."

Posted by on 01/22 at 01:39 PM