USA - Not a Banana Republic

Yes, we are now in the throes of a fundamental transformation of the United States, all in the name of “social justice”. Did you ask for this? Do you want this? Do you think that we have an unjust social system? It seems to me that for decades we have been the most charitable nation in history. When we defeat our enemies, we help to build them back up. We are first on the scene in any natural disaster no matter where it happens, and we are generally a moral and just people, admired and emulated all over the world.

There may be things in our history that we are not proud of, like our Civil War and our treatment of black people, etc., but we are no different from most countries with similar faults, and we have taken actions to correct those wrongs. We also have poor people, just like other countries, but we help people in poverty with government programs and private charitable organizations, faith-based and private, and we have spent billions to help people in this condition. Has this eliminated poverty? No, and it never will, because when you just give money to people you become an enabler, and people expect it will keep coming and they protest when you take it away.

That’s why governments that expropriate money from the wealthy class via excessive taxes and other means and redistribute it to poor people, generally have stagnate or shrinking economies. Make a list: Cuba, Venezuela, France, UK, Russia, Greece, Italy, etc. Also, there are countries where the money stops at the government level and goes in their pockets, like many nations in Africa and parts of Central and South America. The key is to provide an environment where people want to invest, create jobs, and grow their businesses. Uncertainty is the biggest deterrent to this, and that’s where we are today in the U.S.

Getting back to fundamental change, poverty is relative. In the U.S. most of our poor people have two televisions, a car, an apartment, free schools, health care even if they can’t afford it, and the opportunity to improve themselves. Giving them more entitlements won’t change their condition nor incentivize them to improve. Yet every time I turn on the TV there is our President yelling at me about how we need to give more money to the disenfranchised and how our poor people are dying because of those bad health insurance companies or because they are uninsured. It’s almost like a Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez speech marathon with the same old BS. He makes us sound like a banana republic or a third world country; all in the name of “social justice”.

Well, Mr. President, we are not an unjust and oppressed society and we don’t need fundamental transformation. We need a President for all the people and one who builds us up and doesn’t tear us down. We need a government that gets out of our way and makes things easier, less regulations and laws, not more. We have inalienable rights given to us by God not government, and we don’t want to be lectured to. And, by the way Mr. President, we are smarter than you think and we know what you’re up to.