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Man is just about the only creature on earth who has figured out how to live and not work. Systems of governance where robbing one man’s pockets to fill another’s is considered social justice have opened multiple points of access for entrepreneurial opportunists.
The prosperity potentials in a free society are unlimited, but only if we are willing to work for our success. Today the message of something for nothing is resonating so strongly as to drown out nature’s message that productivity is the key to security and personal fulfillment.
In our rush to consume, acquire, and rely on the labors of others, we have accepted the wholesale dismantling of our production based economy. America uses a lot of the world’s resources, but we are producing a shrinking share of its goods. That formula heralds the dimming of our culture’s heretofore bright light of success.
America has a history of creativity and enterprise birthed in property rights, a free market economy, and the rule of law. Each of these areas is under assault by socialist progressives who have tragically achieved success in impairing these cultural underpinnings. One result has been a decreased emphasis on the development of new solutions for the world’s needs. Mirroring a trend in all areas of innovation, America comes in dead last among the 39 countries who have improved investment in technology over the past 10 years.
Any society that does not nurture a creative entrepreneurial spirit is at risk in the competitive world of the twenty-first century. We cannot sustain our current quality of life on the basis of new restaurants, entertainment venues, and government entitlement programs. There is a race for tomorrow going on, and we are still in the dressing room.
America is increasing its investment in the least productive, the least able, and the least responsible. Nature’s laws have never stood in support of survival of the weakest. There is a marked difference in a culture that has compassion for its less fortunate and a culture that defines itself by that priority. Compassion does not give a pass on accountability and the demands of a tough world.
Almost everything about twenty-first century America’s system of governance is designed, intentionally or otherwise, to discourage productivity. Our tax code, our well-armed but incompetent regulatory bureaucracies, and our legal system are hostile toward the productive, while at the same time, indulgent of special interests and the non-productive. When we successfully wear out those who creatively, dynamically, and enthusiastically do something for the world, we will lose our special place in that world…
Dr. Carl Mumpower
www.thecandidconservative.com
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