Off The Publisher’s Desk – 1-27-2021
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Last Wednesday was Inauguration Day for Joe Biden and I listened to part of his speech and that of the two leaders in the United States Senate, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) from the senate floor.
Now if even a small part of what they hope will happen, does in fact happen and that they all work together to put this country back on its feet and get people working again, I will heap praise on all of those guys and the party they represent.
But, let’s give it a try and see if the two sides can come together.
But, why should the two parties work together? The Democrats have control of the House, Senate, and the White House. They can and will rule with the slogan “It’s my way or the highway.” And, I would be surprised if any thing other than that happens in the next two years. I can only hope that two years from now, things are looking better for the entire nation.
It looks like there will be another wave of government spending coming our way. Those people in Washington not only want us to have some more money from Uncle Sam’s coffers, but send millions on to cities and states that could not manage their own finances.
The only way we can have and keep a robust economy is where everyone has a job and pays taxes. We can’t survive living on government handouts. The more government programs there are, the more people that qualify for government assistance. How about a program that puts us to work, and we become self-reliant?
Jeff Minick, writing in the newspaper “The Epoch Times” put Self-Reliance as an American virtue.
He wrote: “From our earliest history, self-reliance was a highly regarded American virtue.
“We Americans embraced that virtue because the colonists, from their first days on this continent, could look only to themselves and their own resources for survival. For several centuries afterward, the men and women who settled this land, particularly the pioneers and outliers, depended on their home grown skill, their intelligence and common sense, and their neighbors to repair their wagons and buggies, to build their houses, to hunt and plant crops and put food on the table, to deliver babies, and to care for the sick. If they became desperate and needed charity, they looked to family and friends, or the local church, for assistance.
“Think Pa and Ma Ingalls in the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ books and television series. From the Appalachians to the Great Plains, millions of our ancestors made do with what they had, just like the Ingalls.
“In our age, too, a diminished sense of self-reliance has brought us the dangers of big government. Where we ourselves once faced up to problems and difficulties or sought the help of others around us, many now automatically look to the government for such assistance. We want the government to educate our children, to care for us when we are sick, to give us money when we aren’t working, and to confiscate money away from some people and give it to others.
“This long-term movement away from self-reliance, this bended-knee approach to our officials and politicians, gives more and more power to our politicians and bureaucrats. Our pandemic serves as the perfect example of this trend. Rather than treating their constituents like grownups, offering them suggestions as to how to remain safe, some of our mayors and governors have issued a series of edicts and restrictions treating those same citizens as if they were children. This approach has angered many people, but it derives in part from our abandonment of self-reliance and self-restraint.”
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton