The Era Of Responsibility

Remember back in the days when you were expected to be responsible for your own life? What has happened in our society that now you are expected to be responsible for everyone else? I am disgusted by grown men and women who stick their hands out and beg a specific lifestyle from the government. What happened to the stigma tied to such behavior? Where is our shame?
There is nothing wrong with a little shame. It causes you to work harder to avoid it. Recently however, hard work is the thing which is stigmatized and "societal victim" status is worn like a badge of courage. We treat "single-by-choice" mothers like Medal of Honor winners and welfare recipients like a national treasure. Meanwhile, successful CEO's, small business owners, and self-made millionaires are lambasted and vilified. The era of responsibility has gone by the wayside only to be replaced by an overreaching sense of entitlement.
Sure, I feel a sense of entitlement. I feel entitled to the basic freedoms which are outlined in our founding documents. I believe they are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". I don't believe they are "health care, home ownership, free education, and a government handout". In fact, I think these are akin to spraying Roundup on your vegetable garden. It kills all future production.
We have just saddled our children and grandchildren with an unimaginable debt load. That one act of entitlement-mentality greed is analogous to child abuse. We are mortgaging our future generations to satisfy our personal wants. Who is going to support all of them? Who is going to help them get out of the economic nightmare we are creating? We won't have to do it. We can't do it. Were too busy feeling sorry for ourselves and playing the role of victim.
This entitlement-mentality is the culmination of years of granting victim-status to the very people who are perpetrating the crimes. The "single-by-choice" mother who condemns her child to exponentially higher suicide, homelessness, crime, and poverty rates; the "fit but lazy" welfare recipient who lives off the backs of hard working Americans; the "I deserve a home" sub prime borrowers who destroy the equity in everyone home; and the "health care is a right" crowd who, if they are allowed, will saddle doctors and nurses with work while looking at you to pick up the tab.
The era of responsibility is dying the death of a thousand blows. Is there no one to fight back? It is up to you and me to end the entitlement mentality and resurrect responsibility.

Is It Over?

We called and emailed. We complained, fretted, moaned, whined, yelled, and screamed. We insisted and demanded. Did they listen? No. They passed that pork-laden stimulus bill (which contains no stimulus) and did so with the help of three RINOs. Senators Collins, Snowe, and Specter have dealt a final blow to our economy and, if I have anything to do about it, their careers. It's too late, we failed. Newsweek proclaims that we are all Socialists now.
Are we Socialists? Are you a Socialist? No, we are not and now is the time to prove it. Did we fail? We lost a major battle here, but this stimulus package is only going to hurt the economy and as a result, Obama's chances at reelection. Are we too late? No, I believe we are just getting started.
I am an optimist. I think this is the perfect setup to prove once and for all that Conservative principles work. Before we do that, we have to win. John McCain showed us that being a moderate is a losing strategy. So, lets go out there and win. Let's adopt a playbook which will destroy the Democrat party for a generation. How do we do this? The same way they did it to us. We will destroy their institutions, like the media; we will demonize their ideology; we will annihilate their kook fringe groups; we will shame the recipients of government money; and we will toss the Socialists out on their collectivists butts. Even when they are in power, they are weak because they are weak-minded. We are strong. We are intelligent. We will not lose this war. We are Conservatives.
Is it over? Most emphatically not! Our reclamation is only just beginning.