A Link in the Dependency Chain

You are just not smart enough.  At least that is how the government views the American public.  You are not smart enough to save your money for retirement. You are not smart enough to choose your healthcare plan.  But, of course you are capable to handle your money and make decisions, the real problem is that we are not vigilant enough to realize that the government should not be doing any of these things for us.  It is both unconstitutional and unsustainable.

For far too many, vigilance has been substituted with dependency.  If you ask an individual if they are in need of the government to handle their money for retirement or healthcare, the majority will answer that they do not.  But in the same breath they will say that everyone else needs the government’s help to manage their lives. 

The delusion that government is needed to care for us has been proven throughout recorded history to simply fail.  Political corruption is inevitable as men in power will become corrupt themselves – it is the human condition.  But by knowing the human condition, the many should be vigilant of the few in government so that the many can thrive.  Thinking of government beyond its constitutional bounds as a solution, has created one link in a long chain of dependency.  What do you think?