Another topic

Yes, 2 topics in the same day, but since they were so different I decided to make them 2 separate topics.

It's our annual "Let's debate forced wealth transfer" discussion on our board. I gotta tell you, it's gone much better than it has in previous years. What is most encouraging to me, is how many ladies are getting it and realizing the importance of the principles and how ultimately forced wealth transfer is so degrading not only to the taxpayer but the recipient. It is gratifying to see the greater understanding, on average, of the board! I'm telling you, stronger families make stronger societies. That principle doesn't seem to be too difficult to me to understand, but it is funny/sad how some will defend their *right* to the public trough to the end, even in the face of the ever growing mountain of evidence in their OWN family of how it really in the end is unhelpful.

Then, finally, around post 120 or so, this dear, sweet woman who married a louse of a man, defends her case because of her sad story...so of course, the other people whose situations are rather desperate join in supporting her. Sigh. Let me reiterate it once again: NOONE HAS A RIGHT TO ANYONE ELSE'S MONEY NO MATTER WHO THEY MARRIED OR WHAT THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATION IS! There are always other answers. That's the dirty little secret. There's always another way...it just so happens that the other way is generally not as *convenient* as having the taxpayers via the government pick up the tab. It might involve living 2 families to a house. It might involve owning fewer personal items than you already own. It might involve a diet that is not your first choice (I know for a fact this girl really likes her chocolate and Mountain Dew....and right there, when in the midst of her false humility (which is what it really is) about how humbling it is to *avail herself* of these funds, she is the one talking about her special Christmas breakfast bought with EBT).....

Again, I think of the Quiner, Ingalls and Wilder family books I've read. There is NO way these families would ever have taken public assistance (I know for a fact that the Ingalls family was offered it a couple of winters and refused on principle). They were even reluctant to take private charity, which in all honesty, I accept any and all offers of assistance. LOL. The chutzpah of these people, while loudly proclaiming how *humbling* it is to be judged (and let's be honest....of course you are...there is a cost to everything and even if the cost is to feel a bit *judged* because you're requesting funds is the very least it should cost you. The fact is, if you're availing yourself of these services, somewhere along life's way you have made a poor choice and yeh....there's a cost to that...why oh, why, do some ladies get so offended with pointing out things that quite honestly are self-evident??) So....things will die down after a while....and then the families who are on these programs will post how things really aren't going to well...really? What a surprise......and the liberal ladies will offer hugs and I will shake my head and feel bad, because in the end, I don't want anyone to suffer, but then again, I can't undo the natural consequences of poor choices..........................

What did my heart good was one lady who I've had quite the relationship with...we used to get along REALLY well, she took a break, came back, we butted heads (I'm still not sure why....), we worked through that and now we're really getting along again. We agreed mostly on what I said, but there were definitely some differences. Last night she PMed me to say, "Guess what...in the end I agree with you more than I thought." It blessed me immensely to read this. And not because she agrees with *me*, but rather because she's agreeing with what I believe to be Biblical principles, of which I am only the messenger. And, because she's believing those things I believe her family will be stronger which incrementally makes society stronger. KWIM?

And here's a thought that I didn't even get around to discussing on there, except peripherally on a secondary thread and that is about our obligation to our children and grandchildren. We have an obligation to them. It is a simple fact that all debts are repaid, whether it is paid by the debtor or the lender absorbs the loss or the debt is passed onto a 3rd party who then assumes responsibility for the debt. In this case, the US Government has an 8 trillion $ debt. Each time someone avails themselves of a government handout they are increasing the debt and passing the debt onto their children...which I'm guessing they won't be too grateful for.