Everyone Is Entitled To __________ (fill in the blank)

Everyone Is Entitled To _________ (fill in the blank)

We are assailed everyday with one special interest group after another loudly proclaiming their group has a right to something; usually public monies. The cost is usually small compared to the national budget. Many times a comparison is made between some boondoggle and their worthy cause. Anyone foolish enough to question the supposed right will be castigated in the public forum. More than one politician has succumbed to the firestorm.

There is no escape other than complete collapse of the economy and the draconian spending cuts that WILL happen. There is only so much wealth generated each year. Most of this wealth is NOT new wealth, but rather a redistribution of existing wealth.

Lets call this wealth an elephant. Although an elephant is an enormous source of sustinence, its size seems overwhelming. It is possible to eat it if you just keep to one bite at a time. If you invite other diners, you will have more bites per given time period. Invite enough other people to the feast and soon the elephant is reduced to bones. Now you have a problem.

Very few of the people feasting contributed to the feast. Some provided nothing more than bringing their own eating utensils. But now the elephant is gone. The people are waiting to be fed. Few if any have developed the skills needed to deliver another elephant to the masses. Oh-oh, the masses are getting restless. What do we do?

You have a problem. There are fewer and fewer elephants. There are more and more mouths to feed. Dumb-ass you, you kept feeding them elephant. They are procaliming they are community and attaching every resource, you included), as a community-owned property.

Is it too late to leave the party? Oh yes. The age of hunger is just beginning and nobody gets out of here alive. People are going to die. Everyone of us. We can stack the odds in our favor for a long and prosperous life, but nothing is certain.

Nobody is entitled to anything beyond their civil rights. Life, liberty and the right to pursue happiness. In accepting these as our rights, we must defend others having these rights. However, the rights don't equate to society paying for your right to life by footing your living expenses. No, the right is all about your right to be relatively free from interference in your chosen lifestyle or lifespan. It is relative simply due to the possibility of "shit happens."
It is not a duty of the people to insure your health, nutrition or place of domicile. It is not the duty of the people to make sure your investments are secure and profitable. Most of all, you aren't entitled to happiness but rather the freedom to pursue it.

I won't deny that there are people in our country with serious problems. The problem is the spokesman for these people demand that everyone pays for putting the lipstick on the pig. Our taxed individual wealth doesn't cure any problems, but rather maintains the problem. We have legislated away nature.

In every natural system, an organism succeeds by industry. It may be nothing more than eating or it may be by participation in a collective effort. Failure to engage in a minimum level of industry results in death. Please understand, I'm not advocating euthanasia. I am advocating for NO PUBLIC MONIES to be expended on non-productive individuals or groups. We have legislated mandatory charity.

It really doesn't matter though. We have set our course for economic meltdown. In the end, we all lose. People will die from the "seven horsemen" while the government will daily proclaim its successes and admit to minor continuing problems with law enforcement, food distribution, utilities failures, yada, yada.

So just what of your resources will your neighbor claim as an entitlement. After all, we are all in this together. Aren't we all equal?