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"I need somebody... Help! Not just anybody..."

It seems that so many are crying out for the government's help; they seem to think the government can actually offer assistance to others.  However, the U.S. Government's ONLY available method for offering help is to take something from one person and give it to someone else (whether this is by election or by force, it's always backed by force).  Why this fact is ignored in arguments for government aid is a mystery (certainly we don't want to see cruel injustice so perhaps we simply close our eyes to it).

The U.S. Government is ONLY here to protect individual rights - not ensure one citizen's comfort at the cost of another citizen's.  Personal responsibility is the requisite.  Even that doesn't guarantee all-comfort all the time (how did we ever get to start thinking that we needed every day to be sunny? Dunno). 

I know, I know; maybe there are those out there who want to create a dependence in order to satisfy their own self-interest of getting or keeping a job (politician, special interest groups, communists), but whether the conspiracy-theorists have it right on or not, somewhere in all of this we have to take responsibility for our own selves or stop whining.  An admonition in agreement with this states, "Dave, you're right.  But we need to fix this (enter social or economic problem here) first; then we'll get around to teaching everyone to learn from the lesson." 

Bull-cracker!  Come on, you know it doesn't work like that.  Ne'er has, ne'er will (ooh, but notice the fancy 'never'). "Just give us a little bit of rope, just enough to hang you with.  No?  Okay, just enough to tie you up, then we'll get around to fixing the problem."  Ain't gonna happen.  The compromise between clean drinking water and poison is always poison.  The only real solution is teaching ourselves and our children to think accurately; to apply reason to principles.  It's not always easy in a world bombarded each day by propaganda; but it's the cause that's worthy above all else, for it is the cause of truth.

--Dave Charbonneau, C.E.R.

"When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now those days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors."
--The Beatles

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