Conservative Blogs
Below is a list of my favorite conservative blogs:
- The 9-12 Project
- Ace of Spades
- American Spectator
- American Thinker
- Ann Coulter
- Atlas Shrugs
- Big Government
- Black and Right
- Campaign for Liberty
- Citizen Wells
- Conservative Outpost
- Drudge Report
- Flopping Aces
- Fox Nation
- Freedom’s Lighthouse
- Free Republic
- Gateway Pundit
- Glenn Beck
- GOP USA
- GOP.gov
- Hot Air
- Human Events
- Instapundit
- Laura Ingraham
- Lucianne
- Mark Levin
- Marathon Pundit
- Mediaite
- Memeorandum
- Michelle Malkin
- National Review
- New Republic
- Newsbusters
- Newsmax
- Pajamas Media
- Patterico
- PJTV
- Powerline
- Radio Vice Online
- Real Clear Politics
- Red State
- Riehl World View
- Right Pundits
- Right Wing News
- Rush Limbaugh
- The Daily Jabber
- The Greenroom
- The Hill
- The Hope For America
- The Patriot Room
- The Weekly Standard
- Town Hall
- White Rabbit Cult
- World Net Daily
- Yid With Lid
We have the mistaken notion that, the more that government does for us, the more freedom that we have. If government provides our food and our housing and our medical care, then we are more free to pursue that which we really want to pursue (rather than being tied down to a job we really do not like).
The problem with a safety net is, this affects the behavior of people and makes them less productive. Let me give you a few examples:
One family which rented a home from me, was a mother, her 20 year old daughter, and her daughter’s 2 children. Government provided them a safety net. Government paid for their housing and for their food. So, what was their job? Every morning, they got up around 10 or so, sat down on their couche, and watched TV for much of the day, while smoking cigarettes, that they were somehow able to pay for. Now, you would think that two adult women, home all day, would have raised some pretty good children, and kept the house clean. Not at all. When I was there doing this or that repair, the kids ran about unsupervised. I do not recall a time when either their mother or grandmother actually got with one of the kids and suggested an activity that they do together. When they moved out, this house was one of the grossest houses I ever took back. Roach feces were literally an inch thick on top of their kitchen cabinets. You cannot imagine the smell from such roach droppings. It took about 6 spraying to rid the home of roaches.
The government safety net gave these women a choice—they could go out into the world and find jobs, or, they could sit at home and watch TV; they chose the latter. Government programs where things are given away for free affect a person’s choices.
Another woman I recently met, who came to look at one of my houses for lease, had 3 children and was overweight by at least 40 lbs. It was obvious that she had not gone hungry for a long time. Since the government paid for her housing, she was now looking for government to pay for a nicer house than she lived in at this moment. There was no indication that this woman worked, but she was well-taken care of.
Let me offer up 2 general areas where behavior is affected. When a man fathers a child, while married or out of wedlock, if that child does not depend upon the father’s finances, it is more likely the child will grow up without this father in his life. The man will not marry or stay married to the mother of his child, if he knows that Uncle Sam will step in and take up the slack. Statistically, it can be shown that far more people are in jail or on drugs who have come from a single-parent home, as opposed of those who came from a home with 2 parents. It is a mistake to try to claim that prejudice or skin color plays some part in our criminal system, because, when single parenthood is removed from the equation, there is no longer a disparity between Blacks, whites and any other race in our criminal justice system. Since there are far more Black households parented by a single mother, there are far more Black criminals. All of this is a result of well-meaning legislation which takes care of single mothers—often for decades and sometimes for several generations.
Medicare, social security and retirements were designed to give a person a few years off at the end of their lives without having to work. What has happened with many retirees is, they retire anywhere from age 50 to 65, they live for another 20–40 years without working, and they take in far more resources than they put into the system. There have been times in our history where we could get away with this—primarily when people lived about 2 or 3 years into their retirement years. Now we have people who are retired for decades, and who are not producing anything. If you are older, if you are tired of working, and if government has things set up so that you can live for the next 10, 20 or 30 years without working, then, why not? If you have some savings, some assets, and the government is going to pay you a stipend and pay for your medical care, then why work?
There are helpless people in this world, and there are people who need a temporary hand up. I have no problem with this. We live in a very generous society (the most generous on earth), and for many years prior to social security, people were still taken care of. Given the prosperity that our nation has enjoyed, I suspect that, even without all of these various government benefits, even more people will be taken care of.
On the other hand, there are a huge number of people out there who are healthy, able to work, and produce nothing because government had provided them with a safety net. Every time that safety net gets larger, the population of these types also gets larger.
In short, that is the problem with the safety net concept. People are not static. They react, to some degree, to the government programs and provisions which are offered them. The more the government gives people for free, the less many people will do for themselves.
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When government provides our food, housing, and sustenance we become slaves and whoever is in the White House becomes massa!
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