Aladdin Sane

As Americans, we have completely failed the poor. The root of the failure can be traced to the decline in the popular belief in the Social Contract. Our "help" has turned too many Americans, of all classes, into dependent, helpless wards of the state. By not insisting that people work for their own survival and the survival of their kin; by failing to insist on moral behavior in return for public assistance; by creating giveaway programs that addict good folks to free food and shelter; by devaluing public education by begging or bribing children to attend; by not treating people like full human beings by failing to hold them accountable for their choices; by inculcating them with half-baked, self-destructive, revolutionary and racist ideas that forment anger, resentment, and a sense of entitlement; all of these attempts at compassion have ended in tragedy. Our "compassion" has failed because it is the kind of compassion that should be reserved for rabbits, but not human beings. A bunny in a hutch is given everything it needs to survive, and in return, its keeper asks for nothing. This type of "compassion" showered on human beings robs them of the essense that makes them human-- the ability to choose, fundamental dignity, and self-worth. This, I submit, is the outcome of the American welfare system.

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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.