It is not the government’s job to
make sure you have a place to live. It is not the government’s job to make sure
you have enough to eat. You need to take care of that for yourself. You need to
earn it, and the great thing about America is that you can earn it. It is not
the government’s job to make sure you have a good paying job, it is your job to
earn that. If you want the government to provide housing and food and work then
you might as well bring back the plantation.
To ask the government to provide
housing is a terrible idea. First it makes you dependent on the government,
meaning if you do not do as they say, they can take that housing away from you.
Secondly if they are providing housing, they get to decide the standard of
living for that housing. You won’t get a nice house with a yard that you can
paint or build on, instead you’ll get a box with a roof, unreliable utilities,
and terrible conditions. Why would it be like that you ask, because the
politician who gave you the housing ran on helping you out, and if you always
need help they can always get elected. If they make you independent or self-sufficient
they will lose a platform to run on as well as reliable voters who are
dependent on what they are providing.
If you are not getting enough to eat
it is not the job of the government to make sure you do. In the wild every
animal works for their food, with the exception of babies. We are not wild
animals and are able to help those who cannot get enough food for themselves.
This does not mean that the government should be the one to make sure you get
food. You should be earning that food yourself. If the government provides the
food, then you will only be able to get the amount and type of food that they determine
that you need. Do you think a government official, who has never met you and
does not know you, will know how much and what kind of food you need better
then yourself? Of course not, so why give them the power to decide that. The
politician will only want to give you enough food to not starve. That is because
if you have enough food, he won’t have a platform to run on and will have
nothing to offer you. But if you are lacking he can obtain your vote by
offering you just a little more. This more, he’ll remind you, would be greater if
the opposition party weren’t standing in his way.
The minimum wage should not be
raised to $15/hour. It is not the government’s job to make sure you have a good
paying job. All this will do is make businesses flee, force them out of
business, cause them to cut hours, or cause them to lay people off. It will
also cause the price of goods and services to go up. It is also morally wrong
for the government to force private business owners to pay a private person an
amount they determine to be enough. If two consenting adults want to sign a
contract and mutually agree to wages for labor then who is the government to
decided what they can or cannot do? Instead of being given better wages, you
need to earn better wages, provide a value to someone else that they are
willing to pay you a lot for. The politician wants to do this because it will
create more people who are dependent on her for their livelihood. It will price
people out of the job market and they will need assistance from the government
something she will be more than happy to offer.
That is not to say if you are in
need that your need is not real. Instead I am saying that you have the ability
to fulfill that need you have yourself. It might not happen in a day or a week,
but if you keep aiming toward your goal you can make your life better. The
moment you expect that from someone else, you are giving away part of your agency
in the world. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, instead be afraid of those who
want you to continuously ask for help. They probably do not have your best
interests in mind.
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