SUBSIDIZING STUPIDITY OR WORSE

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I SEE WHERE AT LEAST ONE OF THE SELF-SERVING CANDIDATES FOR “LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD” IS PROPOSING TO FOLLOW THE “EMINENTLY SUCCESSFUL” MODEL OF SOME “NOT SO FRIENDLY” GOVERNMENTS IN EUROPE AND PROVIDE A “WINDFALL”, (NOT PERSONALLY OF COURSE) TO NEWBORN “CITIZENS” OF THIS COUNTRY; THIS, DESPITE LIVING IN A WORLD ALREADY LACKING ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE EXISTING HUMAN POPULATION WITH EVEN MINIMAL FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER, TO SAY NOTHING OF HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION AND MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT. TO THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF “CLOSED SYSTEMS”, IT SHOULD BE READILY APPARENT THAT PROVIDING SPACE FOR MORE HUMANS INEVITABLY LEAVES LESS SPACE FOR HUMANS AND FOR OTHER SPECIES ON THE PLANET. THOSE CONCERNED FOR THIS ASPECT OF SURVIVAL, SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MOBILIZE THEIR CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES TO CLARIFY THIS CONCEPT TO THOSE WHO LACK SUCH INSIGHT.

I ALSO SEE WHERE ANY NUMBER OF “WELL MEANING”, BUT LESS THAN “ASTUTE” INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS, ARE STRIVING TO PROLONG THE MISERY OF THE ABOVE POVERTY BY POURING MONEY (AGAIN, MOSTLY THE MONEY OF “OTHER PEOPLE”) INTO MITIGATING THE “SYMPTOMS” OF THE “PROBLEM” SUCH AS THE LACK OF CLEAN WATER AND RENEWABLE ENERGY OR THE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING, WHICH SEEMS NOTHING SHORT OF POURING GAS ON A FIRE OR WATER ON A DROWNING INDIVIDUAL SHOULD THERE BE ANY WATER TO SPARE. CONFUSION BETWEEN THE NATURE OF THE “PROBLEM” AND THE “SYMPTOMS” SEEMS TO BE A DISTINCTION NO ONE WANTS TO ACKNOWLEDGE. THAT IT IS NOT “POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT” TO ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY, IF ONE WANTS TO REAP VOTES FROM EVERY SEGMENT OF “SUPPORTERS OF STUPIDITY”, IS NOT SURPRISING.

IT IS REPORTED THAT ONE OF THE CRITICAL FACTORS IN MITIGATING THE DAMAGE, IF NOT “CURING” CANCER (OF THE BREAST, FOR EXAMPLE), IS EARLY DETECTION. THE MEDIA IS SATURATED WITH THE TRUISM THAT ONE “CANNOT CURE CANCER IF THEY DO NOT KNOW THEY HAVE IT” OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT. THE IRONY OF THE ANALOGY IS HARD TO ESCAPE. HOWEVER, ONE MIGHT BE CONSIDERED “EVEN DUMBER” IF ONE REFUSED TO ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE CANCER, WHEN ALL OF THE SYMPTOMS SUGGEST OTHERWISE. INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ACTIVELY SEEK TO DISCOVER THE “SLIGHTEST” INDICATION OF SUCH A “PROBLEM” WITH THE GOAL, NOT OF ENHANCING THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH FOSTER THE GROWTH OF THE “PROBLEM”, BUT OF ERADICATING THE CANCER BEFORE IT CAN DESTROY THE HOST. DARE ONE "SUGGEST" THAT IT WOULD BE WISE TO APPLY THIS LOGIC TO ALL MANNER OF "SOCIAL ENGINEERING"?

IT IS NOT CLEAR, AT LEAST TO TOM, WHETHER THIS “WINDFALL” PAYMENT FOR BIRTH IS TO BE OFFERED TO THE CHILDREN OF THE “INVADERS” OF OUR COUNTRY, BUT, ONE SUPPOSES THAT, IN ORDER TO GARNER A FEW MORE VOTES AND APPEASE THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES, IT IS “INCLUSIVE”. NEITHER IS IT CLEAR WHETHER THIS WINDFALL IS TO BE PROVIDED TO “ILLEGITIMATE PARENTS”, E.G. THOSE WHO BEAR CHILDREN, FORMERLY REFERRED TO AS “BASTARDS” OUTSIDE THE STABILITY OF A TWO PARENT (HETEROSEXUAL?) FAMILY ENVIRONMENT, WHICH IS EMPIRICALLY, IF NOT SCIENTIFICALLY, THOUGHT TO BE THE OPTIMUM ENVIRONMENT FOR CARING FOR THE NEWBORN OF OUR SPECIES, BUT I DIGRESS.

OF COURSE, THERE IS A SEEMINGLY LIMITLESS LIST OF “STUPID SUBSIDIES” TO BE FUNDED (WITH OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY, OF COURSE) AND EACH ONE HAS ITS ADHERENTS WITH A FEW “VOTES” TO BE BOUGHT WITH SAID “PUBLIC FUNDS”. ONE SUPPOSES THAT THE REASON THESE SO CALLED “LEADERS” FLOCK TO THE SOURCE OF VOTES BY PROMISING PUBLIC FUNDS HAS MORE TO DO WITH THEIR DESIRE TO ACQUIRE PERSONAL WEALTH AND POWER THAN WITH THEIR DESIRE (OR ABILITY) TO PROVIDE SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY AS THEY ARE WONT TO CLAIM.

GOVERNMENT “SERVICE” SEEMS TO HAVE EVOLVED INTO THE SUREST WAY FOR THOSE LACKING IN COMPETENCE, USEFUL ABILITIES AND A WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IN “GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT” TO ENSURE A LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLE AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS. THIS WOULD SEEM TO BE THE SUBSIDY INVOLVING THE GREATEST STUPIDITY OF ALL. SADLY, THIS FACT SEEMS TO ESCAPE THE UNINTELLIGENT, THE UNEDUCATED AND THE UNDEREDUCATED, WHO FLOCK TO VOTE FOR WHICH EVER POTENTIAL "PUBLIC SERVANT” PROMISES THE BENEFITS WHICH THE GULLIBLE MASSES WANT AT THE EXPENSE OF “OTHERS”, BUT, I DIGRESS AGAIN.

RETURNING TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND, THERE SEEMS TO HAVE DEVELOPED A “MENTALITY” THAT INSTANT GRATIFICATION IS AN “ENTITLEMENT” TO THE PRESENT GENERATION, TO BE PAID FOR BY FUTURE GENERATIONS, IF AT ALL. THEREFORE, UNWISE CHOICES (STUPID CHOICES?) BY THE GENERAL POPULATION ARE NOW A “RIGHT” WHERE THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH BEHAVIOR ARE TO BE MITIGATED, IF NOT AVOIDED, BY THE INTERVENTION OF “GOVERNMENT”, WHILE THE PARTICIPANTS BEAR LITTLE OR NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR.

THE GREAT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT OF PROVIDING AID TO “POOR FAMILIES”, WITHOUT REQUIRING ANY RESPONSIBILITY ON THEIR PART OR LIMITS ON THEIR PROCREATION, SERVED ONLY TO ADD TO THE QUANTITY OF “POOR FAMILIES”, WHO’S PROGENY NOW POPULATE THE PRISONS OF OUR COUNTRY IN FAR GREATER PROPORTION TO THOSE PROGENY RAISED BY THE AFOREMENTIONED HETEROGENEOUS, NATURAL PARENTS WHO PAID FOR THE CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN (HEALTH, EDUCATION, SUSTENANCE, ET. AL.) WITH HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME INCULCATING A SIMILAR SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY INTO SAID PROGENY.

THE INTERVENTION OF WELL MEANING “OPPORTUNISTS” IN THE AREA OF DRUG ABUSE ALSO COMES TO MIND. NO ONE DENIES THE POWER OF VARIOUS SUBSTANCES TO ALTER BEHAVIOR AND “DESTROY” THE HOST ORGANISM. HOWEVER, AIDING AND ABETTING THE STUPIDITY OF THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO USE THE DRUGS, HAS DONE LITTLE TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM AND THERE IS LITTLE TO SHOW FOR THE MILLIONS (BILLIONS?) OF DOLLARS WASTED, EXCEPT TO PROVIDE A GREATER SAFETY NET FOR MORE USERS AND JOB SECURITY FOR THE "OPPORTUNISTS". IT IS FASHIONABLE TO BLAME OTHER COUNTRIES FOR THE DRUG PROBLEMS IN OUR COUNTRY. HOWEVER, SHOULD ONE BE WILLING TO FACE THE REALITY THAT IT IS THE CONSUMERS OF DRUGS WHO MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE “PRODUCERS” OF DRUGS WOULD NOT BE IN BUSINESS WITHOUT A PLENTIFUL SUPPLY OF “STUPIDITY” READY TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS.

OF COURSE, THE “OPPORTUNISTS” REALIZE THAT THEY COULD NEVER EXPAND THEIR CUSHY JOBS IN “GOVERNMENT SERVICE” WITHOUT AN EXPANDING SUPPLY OF STUPID PEOPLE USING THE DRUGS, THUS CREATING AN EVEN LARGER DEMAND FOR SUCH SUBSIDIES. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN “DRUGS AND CRIME” ALSO SEEMS TO BE A REASONABLE ONE, ALTHOUGH THE EXTENT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE QUANTIFIABLE BY THOSE WHO SUBSIDIZE THIS SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP OR THOSE WHO BENEFIT FROM THE RELATIONSHIP. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT ALLOWING DRUG USERS (AND PROVIDERS) TO EXPERIENCE THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR “CHOSEN LIFESTYLE” WOULD LEAD TO A DIMINISHING SUPPLY OF USERS AND, LIKE THE “PRODUCERS”, IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT THE “PROVIDERS” WOULD PROVIDE THE DRUGS FREE OF CHARGE. HOW INTELLIGENT DOES ONE HAVE TO BE TO UNDERSTAND THAT? IF GOVERNMENT DID NOT SUBSIDIZE THE USE OF DRUGS, WE WOULD LIVE IN A SOCIETY WITH FEWER SURVIVORS OF SUCH BEHAVIOR AND THEREFORE, LESS CRIME.

LIKEWISE, GOVERNMENT “OPPORTUNISTS” SUBSIDIZE THE CRIMINALS, WHICH NOW THREATEN, LIKE CANCER, TO OVERWHELM THE HOST SOCIETY. IT IS POSTULATED THAT THE “SYSTEM OF JUSTICE” IS SO ORGANIZED AS TO PROVIDE THE MAXIMUM BENEFITS TO THE LEGAL AND ENFORCEMENT CADRES (JUDGES, LAWYERS AND POLICE) WHO REAP GREAT BENEFITS AND “JOB SECURITY” FROM THE CONTINUATION OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. WITH FEWER CRIMINALS, THERE WOULD BE LESS NEED FOR “SUBSIDIES” TO PROVIDE THE FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING, ENTERTAINMENT, HEALTH CARE, COUNSELING, MONITORING, ET AL. WHICH IS PERPETUATED BY THE “REVOLVING DOOR” SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, IN A CHARADE OF “CATCH AND RELEASE”, ON WHATEVER PRETEXT THE LAWYERS CAN “NEGOTIATE” WHILE COLLECTING “SUBSIDIES” FOR THEIR SERVICES, SINCE FEW “CAREER CRIMINALS” HAVE THE RESOURCES TO PAY FOR LEGAL REPRESENTATION ON THEIR OWN. THIS “SUBSIDIZATION OF STUPIDITY” ALLOWS THE SAME CRIMINAL TO BE UTILIZED OVER AND OVER AGAIN, PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE “PROVIDERS” OF SERVICES TO CRIMINALS. THE IDEA THAT THE PRESENT "SYSTEM" REDUCES THE SUPPLY OF CRIMINALS IS LUDICROUS.

IN ANOTHER “PLOY” TO GAIN JOB SECURITY (VOTES?), THE SAME CANDIDATE, AMONG OTHERS, PROPOSES TO “SUBSIDIZE” MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO CHOOSE LIFESTYLES WHICH EFFECTIVELY DOOM THEM TO A LIFETIME OF MEDICAL SERVICES, UNDER THE MISNOMER OF "HEALTH CARE" AS A DIRECT AND NATURAL CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR “STUPIDITY. ONE MIGHT CHOOSE A DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE IF THEY KNEW THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DECISIONS WOULD NOT BE BORNE BY THE UNBORN AND THEREFORE DEFENSELESS GENERATIONS, WHO HAVE “NO VOTE” TO BARTER IN PROTECTING THEIR DESTINY. IT IS ONLY THE “VOTE DU JOUR” THAT MATTERS TO THESE SELF-SERVING CANDIDATES. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR PANDERING FOR VOTES TO "SUBSIDIZE STUPIDITY" WILL BE PAID BY OTHERS, WHILE THEY COLLECT THEIR GENEROUS RETIREMENT BENEFITS, INCLUDING HEALTH CARE, FOR "GOVERNMENT SERVICE".

ONE SUPPOSES THAT PERSONS WITH ILLNESSES, WHICH ARE NOT SELF-INFLICTED, MERIT SOME CONSIDERATION, IN THE FORM OF COLLABORATIVE HEALTH CARE. HOWEVER, THAT DOES IMPLY THAT THE COLLABORATION SHOULD BE BETWEEN THE “PUBLIC SERVANTS” AND THE “PROVIDERS” OF SERVICES, DRUGS AND EQUIPMENT DESIGNED TO KEEP PRICES AND DEMAND HIGH AND THE "PUBLIC SERVANTS" EMPLOYED IN PERPETUITY. THERE IS LITTLE ROOM FOR DEBATE THAT THE HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE MADE TO INSURE THE CONTINUED PROSPERITY OF SUCH “CONTRIBUTORS”. AS WITH CRIMINALS, DRUG USERS, BABY MAKERS, ETC., THE PROVIDERS OF SUBSIDIES FOR HEALTH CARE ONLY “USE” THE PARTICIPANTS (VICTIMS WHO VOTE?) TO PROVIDE CONTINUED ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTORS.

THE QUESTION ARISES AS TO WHETHER INDIVIDUALS WHO CHOOSE TO USE DRUGS, PARTICIPATE IN “SEXUAL ADVENTURES” OR PURSUE OTHER ILL ADVISED LIFESTYLES, LEADING TO A PROLONGED DEPENDENCY ON THE LARGESS OF “OTHERS” (AS OPPOSED TO AN UNTIMELY DEMISE) SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO HAVE THEIR “STUPIDITY” SUBSIDIZED BY OTHERS, WHO HAVE OBVIOUSLY REFRAINED FROM THE DUBIOUS PLEASURES OF SUCH UNWISE DECISIONS (STUPIDITY?). WITHOUT THE “SUBSIDIES FOR STUPIDITY”, IT IS REASONABLE TO BELIEVE THAT THERE WOULD BE FEWER OF SAID INDIVIDUALS TO “SUBSIDIZE” AND THERE MIGHT BE MORE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO HELP THE “INNOCENT VICTIMS” OF ILLNESS, AS WELL AS THE “INNOCENT VICTIMS” OF CRIME, WHO ARE ALL BUT FORGOTTEN IN THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF SUBSIDIZED STUPIDITY IN THE CRIMINAL REALM.

IT IS LIKEWISE SUGGESTED THAT SUBSIDIZED HEALTH CARE PROBABLY SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED TO THOSE WHOSE STUPIDITY LEADS THEM ON A COURSE EERILY SIMILAR TO DRUG USERS. FOR EXAMPLE, DRIVERS OF AUTOMOBILES WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS, BE THEY OF THE LIQUID, LEGAL OR ILLEGAL KIND, ARE NOTABLY PRONE TO ACCIDENTS WHICH LEADS TO THE NEED FOR ASTRONOMICALLY EXPENSIVE “MEDICAL SERVICES”, WHICH THE AFOREMENTIONED “VOTE BUYERS” OBVIOUSLY WOULD “SUBSIDIZE” WITH THE RESOURCES OF “OTHERS”. DRIVERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE WOULD SEEM TO LACK THE SAME ENTITLEMENT TO MEDICAL SERVICES THAN THEIR “INNOCENT VICTIMS” MIGHT WARRANT FROM A BENEFICENT GOVERNMENT.

IT IS ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE PRIVATE PROVIDERS OF HEALTH INSURANCE, IF PROVIDED LEGAL PROTECTION FROM THE “AMBULANCE CHASERS”, WOULD BE MORE THAN “APPRECIATIVE”, SHOULD THEY BE ENTITLED TO REFUSE “HEALTH SERVICES” IF THE CUSTOMER IS LEGALLY INEBRIATED. SHOULD THESE INDIVIDUALS WISH TO PAY FOR SUCH SERVICES "PERSONALLY", OF COURSE, THEY SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO DO SO. AS WITH THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT IN OUR SOCIETY, THE USERS OF DRUGS, ITINERANT “BABY MAKERS”, ET. AL. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT FEW INDIVIDUALS OF THIS ILK ARE ABLE TO PAY FOR THEIR “STUPIDITY” ON THEIR OWN AND THEREFORE MUST IMPOSE ON OTHERS TO “SUBSIDIZE” THEIR “STUPIDITY”. THIS LEADS ONE TO THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION THAT “SUBSIDIZING STUPIDITY” ONLY LEADS TO MORE “STUPIDITY”, NOT LESS. OBVIOUSLY, HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOMS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE SAME TYPE OF DISCRETION IN REFUSING SERVICES AND BE LEGALLY PROTECTED FROM THE "AMBULANCE CHASERS".

THERE HAS DEVELOPED IN MODERN SOCIETY, ANOTHER TYPE OF “ADDICTION” TO STUPID BEHAVIOR, ALBEIT MORE SUBTLE, AND THAT IS THE PROCLIVITY OF MANY TO CONSUME MORE CALORIES THAN THEIR BODIES CAN REASONABLE USE IN THE COURSE OF NORMAL LIVING. AS WITH CRIMINALS, DRUNKEN DRIVERS, DRUG USERS, SEXUAL ADVENTURERS AND ITINERANT BABY MAKERS, THE EXISTENCE OF A PLENTIFUL SUPPLY OF “FOOD ADDICTS” PROVIDES ONE MORE GROUP OF “VOTES FOR SALE” TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, IN TERMS OF SUBSIDIES FOR SUCH STUPIDITY. AGAIN, WITHOUT THESE “SUBSIDIES”, THERE WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE FEWER INDIVIDUALS TO CONSUME THE LIMITED ECONOMIC AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE REAL WORLD. THE CONSUMPTION OF “ARTIFICIAL RESOURCES” (CASH AND SERVICES) WOULD BE REDUCED AND EVEN BETTER, NOT FOISTED OFF ON FUTURE GENERATIONS, BY THE "SELLERS" OF SUBSIDIES FOR STUPIDITY IN EXCHANGE FOR VOTES, IN THE FORM OF DEBT AND THERE WOULD BE MORE NATURAL RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS WHO ARE NOW BEING EXPECTED TO PAY FOR TODAY’S "SUBSIDIES OF STUPIDITY".

TO SAY THAT SUBSIDIES DON’T WORK IS TO MISS THEIR TRUE SIGNIFICANCE. WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT THEY DON’T WORK TO ELIMINATE THE “PROBLEM”, THEY DO SERVE TO PERPETUATE THE POPULATIONS OF DRUG USERS, CRIMINALS, ILLEGITIMATE BABY MAKERS, DRUNK DRIVERS, OVER EATERS (WHO ONLY “THINK” THEY ARE ANONYMOUS) AND ANOTHER CLASS OF “SUBSIDIZED STUPIDITY” LOOSELY DEFINED AS “RIGHT TO LIFERS”, WHO "SELF RIGHTEOUSLY" CLAIM TO REPRESENT GOD IN THE MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE, AS IN BABIES WHO WILL NEVER LIVE USEFUL, INDEPENDENT LIVES OR, ON THE OPPOSITE END OF A "NORMAL" LIFESPAN, ESPOUSING OPPOSITION TO THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF AGING. THESE SELF APPOINTED "DECIDERS" ESPOUSE A PHILOSOPHY OF EXTENDING LIFE (SUFFERING?) SO LONG AS THE AVAILABILITY OF MACHINES, TUBES, MEDICATION AND OTHER PARAPHERNALIA IS PAID FOR BY OTHERS, NEVER OUT OF THEIR POCKET. ONE IS TEMPTED TO SUGGEST THAT THOSE WHO HOLD THIS POINT OF VIEW BE PERMITTED TO "ADOPT" ONE OF THESE UNFORTUNATE INDIVIDUALS; TAKE THEM HOME AND CARE FOR THEM WITH THEIR OWN RESOURCES OF TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY, BUT, THAT IS PROBABLY MUCH TOO CRUEL FOR THE VICTIMS. AGAIN, THE SUBSIDIES OF STUPIDITY DO PROVIDE A MEANS OF ACCESS TO WEALTH AND POWER EQUAL TO THE OTHER GROUPS WHO ENGAGE IN THE “BARTERING OF THEIR COLLECTIVE VOTES TO THE HIGHEST “PANDERER”, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS, (IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE LIST OF "SUBSIDIZED STUPIDITY" IS LONG, IF NOT ENDLESS) WHICH IS ALWAYS DESTINED TO USE MORE RESOURCES THAN THE VALUE OF ANY SUPPOSED BENEFITS, WOULD SEEM TO BE ANOTHER “SUBSIDY OF STUPIDITY”, SINCE THE PRODUCTION OF ENERGY GUZZLING VEHICLES IS TIED TO THE PROVISION OF MORE CONCRETE “PARKING LOTS” AND THE LACK OF AVAILABLE ALTERNATIVES THAT MIGHT REALLY ALLEVIATE THE DIRE TRANSPORTATION NEEDS OF THIS COUNTRY, (ALTHOUGH SUCH TRANSPORTATION EXISTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES) WHILE STAUNCHING THE ECONOMICALLY SUICIDAL FLOW OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO OUR SWORN ENEMIES. SUBSIDIZING THIS STUPIDITY ONLY EXACERBATES THE PROBLEM AND ENDANGERS OUR VERY FREEDOM BY PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE “PROVIDERS” OF CARBON BASED POLLUTION WHO ARE ESSENTIALLY “BLACK MAILING” THE “USERS” OF THEIR “FILTHY LUCRE” IN A HIGHLY EFFICIENT PROCESS OF ‘TRANSFERRING” THE HARD EARNED WEALTH OF THIS NATION TO THEIR OWN COFFERS. SADLY, LITTLE OF WEALTH RECEIVED EVER BENEFITS THE POPULATIONS OF SUCH COUNTRIES, BUT, I DIGRESS, AGAIN.

RETURNING TO THE PLETHORA OF “SUBSIDIES” FOR “STUPIDITY”, ONE WONDERS IF THERE MIGHT THERE BE SOME COMMONALITY IN SUCH WIDE RANGING “SUBSIDIES” AND, IF SO, MIGHT THERE BE SOME BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO “SUBSIDIZING STUPIDITY”? SURE ENOUGH, ONCE THE “DETAILS” ARE ELUCIDATED, ONE CAN SEE THE “FOREST OF HUMAN SURVIVAL" RATHER THAN SEEING ONLY THE "TREES OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS". OF COURSE, THE “FOREST” CANNOT LONG SURVIVE, IF THE "VOTE BUYERS" SUSTAIN THE “TREES”, WITH THEIR INSATIABLE DESIRE FOR “SUBSIDIES”, IN THIS CONVOLUTED RELATIONSHIP OF PROVIDING SUBSIDIES FOR STUPIDITY IN RETURN FOR EVERY CONCEIVABLE TYPE OF VOTE FOR SALE.

THE TAXING OF MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES (SUCH AS INVESTMENTS, PRODUCTION, LABOR, SAVINGS, AND OTHER NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF RESPONSIBLE LIVING, LEADS TO “LESS” OF THE ABOVE, AS SURELY AS SUBSIDIZING IRRESPONSIBLE CHOICES/DECISIONS LEADS TO "MORE" OF THE SAME. TO EXPECT THAT “VOTE BUYERS” (BRIBERY IN ITS MOST ELEMENTAL FORM) WILL LIKELY CHANGE THEIR “MODUS OPERANDI”, WHICH HAS PROVED QUITE EFFECTIVE IN ACHIEVING THEIR PERSONAL GOALS OF POWER AND MONEY THROUGH REELECTION, IS HIGHLY SPECULATIVE. HOWEVER, AT SOME POINT, WHEN EITHER “RESOURCES” OR “CREDITS” RUN OUT, THEY MAY EVENTUALLY LOSE THE ABILITY TO "PROMISE", NOT THAT THEY HAVE EVER "DELIVERED" MORE THAN A FRACTION OF THEIR PROMISES. OF COURSE, “THEY” KNOW THAT, BUT, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME. IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO FOOL ENOUGH PEOPLE TO BE REELECTED IN PERPETUITY.

ALTHOUGH HISTORY INDICATES IT IS HARD TO OVERESTIMATE THE COLLECTIVE STUPIDITY OF HUMANITY, DEFINED BENEVOLENTLY AS THE "AVOIDANCE OF NATURAL CONSEQUENCES BY POSTPONING THE INEVITABLE” (THROUGH “SUBSIDIES” OF COURSE), IT HAS BEEN A LONG HELD THESIS OF THE AUTHOR THAT THE YEAR 2015 MIGHT BE THE POINT WHERE HISTORY, AT LEAST IN THIS PART OF THE FREE WORLD” WILL BEGIN TO EXTRACT “PAYMENT FOR SUBSIDIZING STUPIDITY”. HOWEVER, WITH THE ACCELERATION OF UNPRODUCTIVE, IF NOT COUNTER PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES, SUCH AS CRIME, DRUGS, UNFETTERED AND SOON TO BE SUBSIDIZED BABY MAKING, HAZARDOUS LIFESTYLES, FRIVOLOUS USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, GLOBAL STRESS, INCLUDING OVER POPULATION, WAR, DISEASE, HUNGER, THIRST, POLLUTION AND EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION OF NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY, ET. AL, IT MAY BE THAT EVEN THAT “NEAR FUTURE DATE” IS AN OPTIMISTIC ESTIMATE.

UNLIKE THE HIGHLY PAID "OBSERVERS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION" WHO LIVE QUITE WELL BY CONSTANTLY CRITICIZING SAID "VOTE BUYERS", WHILE THEY UNIFORMLY OMIT CONSTRUCTIVE ALTERNATIVES, THE RATHER DRASTIC OPTION OF CEASING TO "SUBSIDIZE STUPIDITY" IS SUGGESTED, WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT THE “VOTE BUYERS” HAVE NEITHER THE MOTIVATION NOR THE INTEGRITY TO DO WHAT IS “NECESSARY” TO SAVE WHAT REMAINS OF THE ONCE GREAT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT CALLED “DEMOCRACY”. AS INFORMED READERS MAY REMEMBER, THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY WAS NEVER INTENDED TO FACILITATE THE PERSONAL AMBITIONS OF “VOTE BUYERS” WHOSE SOLE OBJECTIVE IS TO GET ELECTED AND STAY ELECTED AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, WHILE LIVING OFF OF THE USEFUL ACTIVITIES OR OTHERS. HOWEVER, THE NECESSARY SAFEGUARDS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONSTITUTION.

DEALING WITH “THE PROBLEMS” OBVIOUSLY STARTS WITH NOT SUBSIDIZING THE LOWEST LEVEL OF “STUPIDITY”, E.G. THOSE WHO WISH TO AVOID INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND/OR ESCAPE THE “NATURAL CONSEQUENCES” OF THEIR UNWISE DECISIONS, OR, IN THE CASE OF NEWBORNS, THE DECISIONS OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE. SADLY, OR PROVIDENTIALLY, THE “NATURAL CONSEQUENCE OF “STUPIDITY” IS INCREASED MORBIDITY. WITH THE NATURAL (DIVINE INTERVENTION?) SCREENING OF BABIES TO PREVENT SURVIVAL OF THOSE WHO CAN NEVER LIVE INDEPENDENT, PRODUCTIVE LIVES, TO THE LOSS OF ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL AS A RESULT OF HIS OR HER UNWISE DECISIONS (STUPIDITY), THE CHANCES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES SURVIVING ARE INCREASED. NOWHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION, INSOFAR AS THE AUTHOR RECALLS, IS THERE THE “RIGHT” (ENTITLEMENT) TO ESCAPE THE “NATURAL CONSEQUENCES" OF “STUPIDITY, NOR IS THERE A MANDATE THAT THOSE WHO WISH TO PROFIT FROM THE STUPIDITY OF OTHERS, BY SUBSIDIZING IT, SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO SO.

THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT ALL “CITIZENS” (AS OPPOSED TO INVADERS AND THEIR PROGENY) SHOULDN’T BE AFFORDED AN “OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME EDUCATED AND CHOOSE THE LIFE HE OR SHE WANTS TO LIVE, PROVIDED THEY ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE IT. WITHOUT A PLENTIFUL SUPPLY OF “STUPIDITY”, THOSE WHO NOW BASE THEIR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FORTUNES ON THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH UNFORTUNATES WOULD BE “FREE” TO ENTER A “PRODUCTIVE LINE OF WORK, MEANING THAT THE AFOREMENTIONED "VOTE BUYERS" MIGHT, IN FACT, DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE WITH THEIR LIVES.

IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS THAT OUR “ANTIQUATED” CONSTITUTION IS IN NEED OF SOME BASIC CHANGES. AT LEAST, THIS SHOULD OFFER SOME USEFUL ACTIVITY FOR THE “VOTE BUYERS”, AS OPPOSED TO THEIR “TAX AND SPEND” PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PERPETUATE THEMSELVES IN POWER. OF COURSE, THEY DO THIS IN THE NAME OF “PROTECTING US” FROM THOSE WHO WOULD TAKE AWAY THE “FRUITS OF OUR LABORS”, WHICH, I BELIEVE, WAS THE SAME BUSINESS MODEL USED BY THE MAFIA.

THE MOST OBVIOUS AND IMMEDIATE CHANGE IS TO CLARIFY WHO IS A “CITIZEN” AND THEREFORE ENTITLED TO THE BENEFITS OF LIVING WITHIN OUR GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES, AS I BELIEVE SOME OF THE MORE ENLIGHTENED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE NOW LEARNING IS “NECESSARY” TO THEIR VERY SURVIVAL. IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE DAYS OF “EASY SANCTUARY OVERSEAS”, FOR THOSE WISHING TO ESCAPE THE TYRANNY OF THEIR OPPRESSIVE REGIMES, BUT, WHO WISH TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN FORM OF DESPOTISM IN THE HOST COUNTRIES, ARE COMING TO AN END. LIKE BREAST CANCER, THEIR ACCESS AND CLAIMS OF “RIGHTS” ARE NOW SUBJECT TO EXAMINATION AND ELIMINATION BY THOSE (THE HOSTS) WHO WISH TO SURVIVE. OF COURSE, IT MAY BE TOO LATE, BUT, THE CLEANSING BY EUROPEAN “SURVIVALISTS” MAY SOON SERVE AS A MODEL FOR OUR OWN SURVIVAL, ALBEIT, HOPEFULLY, WITH LESS PRIMITIVE METHODS.

THE “DEVISORS” OF OUR CONSTITUTION OBVIOUSLY COULD NOT HAVE FORESEEN THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DECISION TO BESTOW “CITIZENSHIP” ON EVERY BABY BORN (NOT NECESSARILY CONCEIVED BY LEGAL CITIZENS) WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHIC BORDERS OF THE ORIGINAL 13 STATES. THIS ASPECT OF THE CONSTITUTION, IN THE LIGHT OF THE PRESENT DAY PROBLEMS AND INVASION OF OUR BORDERS BY MOBILE POPULATIONS FROM EVERY DESOLATE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, CAN CERTAINLY BE DEEMED INADEQUATE, AT BEST.

SHOULD I TAKE MY (HYPOTHETICAL) PREGNANT COMPANION AND ENTER A FOREIGN COUNTRY (LEGALITIES ASIDE), FOR EXAMPLE, SAUDI ARABIA, WHERE SHE “ACCIDENTALLY” GIVES BIRTH TO “OUR” CHILD, ONE WONDERS WHETHER THAT EMENENTLY RICH COUNTRY MIGHT AUTOMATICALLY CONFER ON “OUR CHILD” THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP, INCLUDING A LIFETIME OF ACCESS TO OIL REVENUES AND, AT THE SAME TIME, BY EXTENSION, THE RIGHT TO PETITION TO HAVE MEMBERS OF HIS/HER FAMILY (INCLUDING THE TOTALLY “SURPRISED” PARENTS) JOIN HIM/HER IN BEING ENTITLED TO THE SAME LIFETIME OF BENEFITS. I THINK NOT! IN FACT, I SUSPECT THERE ARE FEW, IF ANY, COUNTRIES, OTHER THAT THE ONE RUN BY “UNCLE STUPID” WHERE THE BIRTH OF A CHILD (LEGALITIES ASIDE) ENTITLES THAT BABY (AND LATER THE “FAMILY”, WHICH SEEMS TO EXPAND ON A DAILY BASIS) TO THE LEGAL STATUS OF PERMANENT RESIDENT, CITIZENSHIP AND "SUBSIDIES".

WITH RESPECT TO RETROACTIVITY, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE SAME REQUIREMENTS ARE REASONABLY APPLIED TO ALL WHO OBTAINED "CITIZENSHIP UNDER A FAULTY PREMISE. SUCH AN “AMENDMENT” SHOULD NOT REQUIRE OUR COUNTRY TO “GRANDFATHER IN” ALL OF THE INVADERS. THE “NEW” LAW OF THE LAND SHOULD SUPERSEDE ALL PREVIOUS ONES. THE COUNTRY IS FACING QUESTIONS OF "SURVIVAL", NOT A DILETTANTE'S DISCUSSION ON THE MEANING OF "IS".

NEXT, THE ENTITLEMENTS “FOUND” BY IMPLICIT (CREATIONISTIC?) INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, SUCH AS THE “RIGHTS TO FREE HOSPITAL/MEDICAL TREATMENT, WELFARE, JOB PREFERENCES, CRADLE TO GRAVE SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR AN AGRARIAN SOCIETY THAT HAVE “MUTATED" (BEEN MUTILATED?) TO PERMIT THE LEGAL AND POLITICAL/BUREAUCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT TO CONTINUE FEEDING AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH, CERTAINLY REQUIRE REVISION TO CLARIFY THAT THESE CONDITIONS NO LONGER EXIST.

SINCE CHILDREN AND UNBORN GENERATIONS HAVE NO VOTES TO “SELL”, NOR ANY METHOD TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE AVARICE OF THE “VOTE BUYERS”, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE REVISED CONSTITUTION REQUIRE ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO BE FUNDED OUT OF CURRENT INCOME. UNDER THIS AMENDMENT, THOSE WHO WISH TO “BUY VOTES”, WITH NON-EXISTENT RESOURCES, WOULD THEN BE REQUIRED TO DEVISE METHODS TO “PAY” FOR THEIR PROMISES, E.G. IMPOSE TAXES AND FEES TO FUND THE "SUBSIDIES OF STUPIDITY" RATHER THAN SELL "WORTHLESS CHITS" TO OTHER COUNTRIES. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO RESPONSIBLY MANAGE THE AFFAIRS OF OUR COUNTRY – NOW THERE IS A “REVOLUTIONARY IDEA”. THUS, IF “UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE” IS DEEMED A FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT (NOT TO SUGGEST THAT IT IS), THEN THE GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE MONEY FOR IT, FROM THE EXISTING SOCIETY, FOR THE EXISTING SOCIETY, THAT RECEIVES THE BENEFITS. IN NO WAY, SHOULD “BUYING VOTES” BY PLACING DEBTS ON FUTURE “DEFENSELESS” MEMBERS OF THIS SOCIETY, BE ALLOWED.

PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS COULD MAKE A GOOD CASE FOR “DEFAULTING” ON ALL OF THE “PAPER PROMISES” USED TO BUY VOTES DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20^th CENTURY, POSSIBLY BEGINNING IN 2015. THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE “SUGGESTED” BY A WISER AND MORE INSIGHTFUL PERSON, IS TO SIMPLY CRANK UP THE PRINTING PRESSES AND HAND OUT TRILLIONS OF USELESS DOLLARS TO ALL OF THE “CREDITORS” (FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC) WHO WERE SO BLINDED BY THEIR GREED THAT THEY BOUGHT THESE SOON TO BE "WORTHLESS" PIECES OF PAPER.

ONE ASSUMES, THAT WHEN “VOTE BUYERS” APPROACH THE “PROSPECTIVE PAYERS” OF THE "SUBSIDIES FOR STUPIDITY", THEY WILL ENCOUNTER AN UNWILLINGNESS TO PAY THAT CANNOT BE MEASURED ON A SEISMIC MONITOR AND THERE WILL BE MUCH LESS GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE. (ANOTHER "REVOLUTIONARY" IDEA) IT SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY TO POINT OUT THAT THIS COUNTRY ALREADY HAS FAR MORE GOVERNMENT THAN IT CAN “AFFORD”, MUCH LESS, PAY FOR.

FINALLY, FOR THOSE CITIZENS THAT PERSIST IN “STUPID BEHAVIOR”, THE PROVISIONS AGAINST “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” NEED TO BE REVISITED. IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE “FOUNDING FATHERS” NEVER CONTEMPLATED A LEGAL SYSTEM “OF THE LAWYERS; BY THE LAWYERS; FOR THE LAWYERS”, WHERE HORSE THIEVES AND OTHER CRIMINALS WOULD BE “BONDED OUT”; PLEA BARGAINED TO SOMETHING LESS THAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR CRIME; EXCUSED FROM MURDER BECAUSE THE “GLOVE DON’T FIT; TRIED AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL THEY COULD FIND A SYMPATHETIC JUDGE OR JURY; LIVE A LIFE OF RELATIVE EASE, WITH ALL AMENITIES, FOR 15 OR 20 YEARS, BEFORE THEY MIGHT BE “PUNISHED” (MAYBE NOT), WHILE THEIR VICTIMS AND FAMILIES SUFFERED FROM THEIR DASTARDLY DEEDS, FROM “DAY ONE”.

EVEN WORSE, ONE WONDERS HOW THE FOUNDING FATHERS COULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THESE PREDATORS MIGHT BE “RECYCLED” AGAIN AND AGAIN, UNTIL THEY HAD REACHED THEIR “DESIGNATED NUMBER" OF HORSES, BUT, THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC.

ALTHOUGH THE AUTHOR KNOWS OF A WAY TO PREVENT REPETITION OF CRIMINAL ACTS (SHORT OF EXECUTION) THAT WOULD AVOID THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF WAREHOUSING CRIMINALS UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES OFTEN MORE COMFORTABLE THAN THOSE UNDER WHICH SOME NON-CRIMINALS LIVE AND LEAVE THE HONEST CITIZENS FREE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT FEAR, IT IS DEEMED PRUDENT TO LEAVE ALL OPTIONS OPEN TO OTHERS UNTIL THEY REACH THE SAME CONCLUSION, OR A DIFFERENT ONE, THAT IS EQUALLY EFFECTIVE IN DETERRING “HORSE THIEVES” OR THEIR MODERN EQUIVALENT.

REMEMBER, THE BASIC PRINCIPLE IS THIS. TAXING (IN WHATEVER FORM OF FEES AND REGULATIONS) AN ENTERPRISE OR ACTIVITY RESULTS IN LESS OF IT WHILE SUBSIDIZING AN ENTERPRISE OR ACTIVITY RESULTS IN MORE OF IT. ONE MIGHT DO WELL TO REMEMBER THE ADVICE GIVEN TO THE INDUSTRIOUS LABORER STANDING IN A DEEP HOLE. THIS FAR WISER MAN OPINED THAT IT MIGHT BE WELL TO "STOP DIGGING".

ENJOY,

TOM