Redneck Review!
No. 148 - 2/19/2018
For the past two weeks, these reviews have been focusing on powerful arguments that nations which start taking from one person and giving to another have set in motion a system logically ending in financial disaster.  Bastiat's LEGAL PLUNDER and Crockett's NOT YOUR TO GIVE make compelling common sense, that taking and using tax dollars from those who pay, and then giving them to selected recipients cannot continue forever!  Both arguments claim that eventually the givers will demand to be on the receiving end. Also it often happens that in one way or another, those on the receiving end, are better off than some who are on the giving end.  Both human nature and common sense tells us that there are some who are selected to receive because they are in the right place at the right time, or are friends of those who control the gifts, or somehow just manage to get the attention of the middle men, the government individuals or agencies that control the giving.
Thus the claim is made that a type of REVERSE ROBIN HOOD effect takes place, in which some on the receiving end are better off than many individuals who "give" as required by mandatory taxes. It is proposed here that a close look at the system of government grants that are found in our country today often results in just that, that recipients of such grants are benefiting sometimes from taxes taken from others who would not be willing to donate to the proposed projects, or in even a worse case, are paid for by money which is borrowed from future generations who are then saddled with the national debt which results. 
Those who are interested and willing to look around cannot help but see numerous cases of well-to-do individuals being helped by government programs that pay for breakfast and lunch of students in school, reduced prices or free homes for selected groups of people, medical care that is free or available at reduced costs, just to name a few that can be found in every
area and location.
So much for common sense and good logic!  What about lessons which history itself might tell us? Here we reference professor Alexander Tyler as mentioned briefly in review #134and even before that, far back in review #16, 8/10/15, that DEMOCRACIES LIVE ONLY ABOUT 200 YEARS.  Around 1787, about the time our country was adopting its constitution,Tyler, a Scottish history professor is quoted as saying: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage --> to spiritual faith --> to great courage --> to liberty -->to abundance --> to complacency --> to apathy --> to dependence --> back into bondage."
Historians have claimed repeatedly, that those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them.  So simply giving long and honest thought to the claims made by the gentlemen cited and quoted above should tell us that its time for change in the direction our country has been going for the past dozens of decades!  After all, our country is now close
to 250 years old if we consider our birth day July 4, 1776, with the publishing of our Declaration of Independence.  So what does common sense and history tell us about our future? 
Jake Wren

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