The Evil of "for the common good"....

H.L. Mencken, writing in the 1930s, collected in "A Mencken Chrestomathy":

Here is the perfect pattern of a professional world-saver. His whole life has been devoted to the art and science of spending other people's money. He has saved millions of the down-trodden from starvation, pestilence, cannibalism, and worse—always at someone else's expense, and usually at the taxpayer's. . . 

Of such sort are the young wizards who now sweat to save the plain people from the degradations of capitalism, which is to say, from the degradations of working hard, saving their money, and paying their way. This is what the New Deal and its Planned Economy come to in practice—a series of furious and irrational raids upon the taxpayer, planned casually by professional do-gooders lolling in smoking cars, and executed by professional politicians bent only upon building up an irresistible machine.

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A well versed summation of the "feel good" notion of wealth distribution in the name, the guise of, helping those in need.  The Government as a charity with the Liberal as the acting director of handouts and payoffs to those in need or those perhaps in need of needing.  This country died with the New Deal.  There was and is no turning back.

They have designed a system based on the pyramid scheme of the Government trickles down the economic rewards of others to be bestowed on those not so blessed.  It is the system of killing the individual, still to this day the smallest minority, and the building of the Collective masses living in some "harmonious" society where everyone is equal and if not, then it shall be made so.

They have designed a system that continues the recruiting efforts.  A system of gifts that keep people from seeking that which they need, turning instead to that which will grant it to them.  Not because they are bad or lazy or unable but because they are taught and trained and conditioned to accept that life is not their fault.  Being born into a poor family is not their fault.  Not being as smart or as tall or as gifted is not their fault and that the Government will level the field of reward so that no one is made to have to work harder than the next; everyone gets a trophy, everyone is a winner.

Do Liberals send their check to the Government and then pat themselves on the back?  "See, I care! I sent my money to the Charity and the poor and needy will want no more.  Look at me, I care."  With the same euphemistic idiocy, they point their fingers at those less willing to impart additional "fair" tithing’s to this Governmental Charity and scream, "they are greedy, they don't care, they are not worthy of their labor!"  And what is sad, it sells.  It sells to the people on the Charity doorstep, whether they have entered or are going to do so in the near future.

Sad.  It is the property of these people, these business men and women, working families and people striving and working harder than the common fray that is the reward of those that do not or cannot do so.  Why should the labor of one who would work 20 hours a day so easily be taken, with glee and expectations, so that others can reap the reward?  Are not jobs created by these people that would otherwise not exist?  Are products not brought to market that would never have come; products cheaper and better and more able to provide better lives and living?  It is not a zero sum game.  The successful provide much in return for their success even though it must be stated; it is their success at their own hands.  The fact that the government provided a lawful and stable state to live in does not grant a larger portion from one than another.  This stable state, these roads and teachers that the President of Charity speaks of existed for all to use.  The poor can use the roads as well as the rich.  They may ride in different vehicles, but getting from A to B is the goal, not the mode.  It is not the Government's Constitutional duty to provide equal cars, but only the chance to have one if the citizen chooses and then works to provide for themselves.

People, citizens of this great Republic, you cannot continue to look for the Government to grant you “fairness” and equality of life; there is no such Utopia.  You must look to yourselves to find what you can do to achieve what you can be.  You must strive to work hard and work honest so that you can best achieve the Life and Happiness that real Liberty is designed to allow.  The more you seek to have the “others” supply your daily bread, the more you will find yourself in need.

No Government can sustain a society of charity, it has never been done.  Why do people seek the same dependent state?