Over the years, society has become increasingly less intelligent about social and political issues, and has become more economically dependent upon the government to meet its needs; often satisfying more of its “wants”. I believe nowadays that a majority of our nation’s population has instilled an incredible amount of trust and sense of faith in an arguably untrustworthy and hopeless establishment. If the inhabitants of a nation are uninformed, they know little to nothing about what is laws and decisions are being made to govern them. These people go on with life trusting the government to sustain a prosperous, safe nation.
Contrary to their beliefs, laws are passed that go against our nations’ constitution that goes into law unless challenged by someone. If the public is so “in the dark” almost anything can be done with minimal backlash. We need to become more informed and drastically less dependent upon the government. As more and more people become economically dependent upon the government it puts an abundant amount of pressure upon the working class. The money has to come from somewhere or the funds will run dry, ultimately, a cause of increasing taxes.
Over the last few years the number of people receiving assistance from the government has been on the rise. Our government should not just be so liberally handing out these kinds of assistances, instead there should be investments made in programs designed to help the public get out of the position they are in, requiring them to need to receive assistance.
I agree with Glenn,
ReplyDelete“Over the years, society has become increasingly less intelligent about social and political issues, and has become more economically dependent upon the government to meet its needs; often satisfying more of its “wants”. I believe nowadays that a majority of our nation’s population has instilled an incredible amount of trust and sense of faith in an arguably untrustworthy and hopeless establishment.” – Dependent, Glenn Goldsberry
I could’ve said it better myself, but he did a pretty good job.
(General sweeping statements time)
Our nation has largely become deeply and unconsciously indoctrinated through public schools and government controlled mass media… or in other words, people are just dumb. We have chosen to elect a man to the most powerful position in the world simply because of his color. We are swayed by misleading and inaccurate campaign commercials and reject basic logic, we’re taught to believe, not to reason and study. In a quite literal sense we are a flock of sheep. We believe that the military always fights with righteous intent, when in reality they fight for oil or to maintain our unruly and unsuccessful empire. We praise Abraham Lincoln for freeing the slaves through the Civil War, and we neglect to wonder as to how every other country that practiced slavery abolished it without war. We praise George Bush for avenging 9/11 through the Iraq War, yet we forget that Osama Bin Laden was a CIA informant and that the U.S. created Al Qaida in the 80s to repel the soviets. We’re not taught about many of the founding fathers being associated with the Free Masons or what actually happened to JFK or Pearl Harbor. We need to overhaul this vastly “untrustworthy and hopeless establishment”. We the People must hold our ELECTED leaders’ feet to the fire and demand our freedom. It’s time we ended this reign of greedy and deceiving shadowy figures controlling our lives through tyrannical legislation like the Patriot Act or hellish illegal prisons like Guantanamo. We must fight for a truly transparent government, one that is so honest that conspiracy theories would become a thing of the past. That public schools would teach true history, not the glorified and edited version of the agenda driven government.
Fight for the constitution.
Fight for what’s right.
Fight like Ron Paul.
Wise up and Rise up!
This post is in response to the author of Sarcastic politics April 3, 2013 blog post titled Dependent. I agree with you that the people of this country have indeed " become more economically dependent upon the government. " All though I would disagree with you about them trying to satisfying wants instead of needs. Food for to feed ones family and a doctor to mend their wounds are not wants they are basic needs.
ReplyDeleteIn country were the top 1% of people control 40% of the nations wealth while the bottom 80% of people only have 7% of the nations wealth I would have to say that you are wrong about who is standing around with their hands out. How could you expect taxes to go down when corporations like exon mobile pay in close to nothing into the tax system and every year receive rebates from the same system of amounts exceeding 100 million dollars? How can you expect a government function properly when we allow companies to buy politicians? The fact of the matter is you simply can not.
You are also correct about another thing in your post every year more and more people are having to receive assistance from our government which is a bad thing. Until we correct the corporate monopolies that are holding our government and economic system hostage, we will never see America shine as it once did as the greatest country on earth, and the American Dream will continue to realized less and less often.