Entitlements Aren’t Always About Social Programs

Entitlements Aren’t Always About Social Programs
Al Ritter


Maybe it’s just me, but in the last few years I find it easier and easier to tell a liberal by their actions rather than a declared stance. I wrote an article a few years ago about the “Y” generation and explained the entitlement mentality of these young adults.


They would be the ones who regularly go to the “12 items or less” checkout lanes in the grocery store with 40 items in their basket, and then pay with a check. They are the ones that butt into line when they see someone they know at a concert. They are the ones who wait until the last minute to merge on the beltway and cut you off while doing it. They are the ones who cut in front of you in the gas station line while you have been waiting 20 minutes to get to that same pump.


They are the ones who constantly talk about sacrifice, but in no such uncertain terms do they want to sacrifice anything of their own for some “noble” cause. They are the ones who expect regular raises when they have just been hired by the same company that you have been working for a decade with no raises.


They are the ones who drive only the most expensive cars, live in the biggest houses and show off everything about their existence, but are never more than 4 paychecks away from being homeless. They quite plainly are the “posers of the world.” They are the ones whose opinions are worth the most, whose material objects are the best, and everything you have is mundane.


They are the ones who talk the game about charitable giving, but never give to anything or any group. They are the ones who think that government is here to take care of everyone. They think that YOU make more money than you need, and therefore you should be giving more to charity (aka the government) because only they know best on how to distribute it to the poor. They are the ones who don’t believe in god and therefore the idea of letting churches distribute things to the poor is a bad idea.


They are the ones who feel entitled to our money, our time, and our way of life without working a day for it. Somehow these people think that what they have is theirs and what we have is theirs too! They are the ones who run for office and promise the steal from the rich and give to the poor…….and that has to be the correct thing to do right?.................Well it worked for Robin Hood!

This isn’t about Healthcare

This isn’t about Healthcare
Al Ritter

For the last year and a half we have not been dealing with individual mandates that the liberal progressives want, we have been dealing with ideologies. To the liberals, ideology means everything. To Obama one successful campaign after another is all his Presidency will ever be about, because he lacks the leadership skills to transfer his campaign skills into managerial skills. Obama leaves the “details” to people like Emanuel and Axlerod, which make the glaringly obvious contradictions all that more apparent.

To understand the left you need to understand the intent. They intend to transform America from what it started as in 1776 to yet another country that looks, acts, and smells like any other country in the European Union. They seek to even out the economic playing field among their citizens, but at the same time exclude themselves, and the special interests that put them into a position of power, from said policies.

Their aim is to tax the upper class even more than it’s taxed now, and inflict an inequitable structure to divide the classes. This move clearly shows that they intend to start inter-class wars, and to vilify the business world and those who work cleverly enough or smart enough to make money.

America became world leaders during the Industrial Revolution, when the cleverest of entrepreneurs designed and built the machinery to bring us into the next century. It is amazing to think that our meteoric rise to world leadership has happened in a relatively short period of 230 years. Our patent offices were the very basis of rewarding the best thinkers in our country.

Policies of this administration will reverse that capitalistic advantage that the United States has always enjoyed. Research and technological advances will become things of the past because the government will deem them unnecessary, and needless money wasters. Under the new healthcare laws, the privacy of your medical history will become a thing of the past, medical insurance fraud will flourish, and the government bureaucracy will have to double to handle the load. Doctors are already being told what they can earn through the “doc fix” which is sort of ironic, because it has fixed nothing, only kicked the ball farther down the road for someone else to fix. Student loans have been taken over by the government now, added to the other monopolies the government owns.

Publicly owned companies have become the targets of government. It used to be they were only answerable to their shareholders, but according to this administration, the government can place salary caps on management, placed by some third rate bureaucrat. Who will be next? You silently watch while the new policies don’t affect you, but you can bet they will eventually. Will you voice your opinion then?

It’s funny how the government sees Corporations as the bad guys, and patents as holding the monopolies of this country, but in actuality the private sector knows how to make the money, but the government only knows how to take the money from the golden goose and distribute it to the people THEY see as fit recipients. To give a glaring example of government greed isn’t difficult. Let’s look at the oil companies, they make billions of dollars a year, but they sell billions of gallons a year and their profit margin is tight, some say as little as 3 cents a gallon. The government retrieves more in taxes than the oils companies make in profit on the products. Add that to the fact that the government invests nothing in the way of cost to reap their benefits, no research, no refineries, no employees…….NOTHING. Who is the bigger thief here?

It all boils down to one question. Do you think that government should participate in the social programs and agenda to make one person pay for benefits of another, or do you believe that every person should be responsible for themselves?
Everyone needs to pick a side on this debate, there can be no middle of the road here, and citizens who wander in the middle of the road get hit by traffic.