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I need your help this writing of On My Duff. I
am having a real hard time finding the title of this article in
the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers or The Constitution. I
have looked everywhere including my 6th grade geography book and I
can’t find it anywhere. I know it must be there because the
politicians use it so much. Especially during the election season.
One politician went as far as to say that a college education was
the entitlement of every child in America. Is it just me? Am I so
dense and backward that I don’t see entitlements spelled out in
the papers our founding fathers left for us in Philadelphia, New
York and Washington?
In this season of political blathering they are bantering of
entitlement of insurance for every American. They even speak of
entitlements for those poor immigrant Mexicans who have crossed
the border illegally to do all our labor chores for us. We should
have entitlements for the poor prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. It
would appear that everyone who sets foot on American soil
illegally or under adversary conditions have entitlements. Wait,
here I go again. I can’t say it doesn’t exist. I find the word in
the dictionaries. I find it in speeches coming out of politician’s
campaigns, I hear it from demonstrators in the streets and I find
it in the writings of columnists and op-ed writers all over the
country. So why can’t I find it. I mean what entitlements we are
supposed to have? Years ago when politicians promised a chicken in
every pot and a car in every drive, was that just hot air or were
those entitlements.
Sir Isaac Newton said many years ago as he sat under an apple tree
and an apple fell on to his head and awoke him from an afternoon
nap: "Where there is an action, there is an equal and opposite
re-action". ? If there are entitlements, then surely there are
those who must foot the bill for those entitlements. Entitlements
cost money and so there must be some way of paying for all these
wonderful entitlements. The money just doesn’t magically appear,
although I think most politicians in Washington think it does. In
truth those entitlements are paid out of the 30 percent the
government takes from our pay checks every week. If you count
local county and state taxes that inch their way through our
pocketbooks it is probably closer to 50 percent.
There are probably forty million illegal immigrants who work six
and seven days a week working for employers who do not report
their true wage and hour details, send their 30 cents that should
be going to taxes back to their home land every Friday from the
local check cashing mills that keeps the paper trail at a minimum
so the government can’t find where they work. The people who hire
them don’t report it because they only pay the illegal immigrants
30 cents on the dollar to start with, so their main entitlements
are already taken up with the scam they and their employers are
pulling on the government and the American people.
There are probably close to the same number of people who have for
some four generations lived off of the government dole. They have
milked the entitlements for all their worth and then some. You
will find them from the city ghettos to the mountains of
Appalachia. Wouldn’t work before the welfare system started and
have not intention of starting as long as the government will keep
passing out entitlements. They are entitlement rich.
So what about those people who are on the other side of the
entitlements? Where do they fit into this entitlements thing. What
are their entitlements? Are there any for them? They surely have
foot the bill for plenty and with each generation seem to pick up
even more entitlements pay for that their grandfathers didn’t
have. Their taxes pay for city, county, state and national
governments. They pay for local police, county police, game
wardens, FBI, DEA, homeland security, border patrol. Secret
Service, IRS, Department of Transportation and a host of other
federal agencies that field agents of sorts. They pay for local,
state and federal Agriculture, local, state and federal
transportation. State Departments and all the other departments
that make up government. They foot the bill for Embassies around
the world and all the support people that make them up. If that
weren’t enough we give Trillions of dollars propping up countries
just for the right to have an embassy there and to countries that
use the same money we give them to try to over turn our
government. These cost do not cover the cost of the war on
terrorist that runs about a billion dollars a day. We even
subsidize farmers and oil companies, drug companies and ranchers.
With bloated local, state and federal governments and all the
"pork projects" the politicians hide in the budget every year the
tax payers are just about entitled out.
OK, here is the bottom line. If I have any of these entitlements
coming to me, I would like to have them now. I am getting old and
do not have a lot of time left so if I could get it in a lump sum
I would appreciate it. In the meantime I dare not hold my breath
waiting on those wonderful entitlements. I feel like I am not a
member of a voting block that could see our next beloved political
welfare recipient (president) elected.
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