From the U.S. to England to France and countries beyond, we have a whole lot of government bailing out going on!

Can you and I submit our requests for bailout if we lose our houses, jobs, cars, or a bunch of money in Las Vegas some weekend?

Seems like we can expect some kind of help in no matter what happens.  Our two presidential candidates each are coming up with new programs and promises on how the government’s role will include saving you and me from possible foreclosure to extending unemployment benefits when you or I will lose your job.  Many of us have lost our jobs in our worsening economy and still more of us will lose our jobs in the months ahead.

This may all sound great!  But it’s not!  Government is not supposed to protect your jobs or your investments.  Government is only supposed to protect the country – the citizens of the country from enemies, foreign and domestic.

Take control of your self!  Yes, we do have many safety nets in place in the U.S., from unemployment compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, and more.  But, even these programs are heavily burdened by massive numbers of recipients and are all on the way to more emergency bailout measures themselves.

Adding more promises to save everyone from major events in their personal lives to what we have already promised in current governmental entitlement programs is putting us squarely in the Garden of Eden known as Socialism.  There is no denying it.  When the government bails out and becomes thereby the owner of major banks, major insurance corporations, auto manufacturers, and more components of our economy and our society, we are under Socialism.

Don’t we want to be Free any more?  Free to work in any occupation we prepare ourselves for, free to work and save enough money to buy the house, car, education, and consumer goods we can afford?  And do this all by ourselves?  As we grew up hearing and knowing that’s how you can do things in the U.S.?  Each of us are free to do it all?

We must have gotten used to be taken care of.  Because that seems to be what we want more of.  After all, if the government can bail out banks, insurers, auto makers, and major Wall Street players, why not bailouts for you and me, too?  We’re just little peons compared to these others, aren’t we?

There’s a big price to pay to enact all these bailouts and other economic and social safety net programs, because they all cost money.

Taxpayer money is what pays for all of this.  Today and in future generations.

Government produces nothing and earns no income.  Money distributed by the government is first obtained (forcibly by taxes!) from taxpaying citizens.

It is taxpayer money that pays for all the programs and entitlements we receive.

We need to get back to our basics.  The Constitution is still there.  We should go back to it.

Everyone needs to go to work.  Somehow, we can all take care of ourselves.  It may be hard and it can take some time.  Help is always available and always will be.  Help should not be equal to bailout, though.   Help is help.   Help is not bailout.   Bailout just takes away incentive for each of us to be accountable for whatever we are working toward achieving.

If you know you are going to be bailed out if you fail or get into trouble, you are not going to really worry about failure since you will be saved from disaster anyway by some governmental program.  So what if I fail, you may say, I know there’s a governmental agency I can call.

Start your own business and take the time and commitment to build your own economic stability program.  It’ll take time, and there will be help available, but we should get away from expecting so much in the way of our government being there, at the ready, to bail us out of trouble.

Seems like Big Brother – taking care of all us Little Brothers and Little Sisters, doesn’t it?

Till next time,

Jackie