In government, project means taxes. It is where everything comes from. As such, unnecessary and wasteful spending (project) means additional burden for the people. The result… more suffering. And this thing is not only unconstitutional but immoral. Thomas Jefferson said in the beginning of the new world (U.S.A.): "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them". Pork barrel is one of the example being use to pursue political ambition under the pretense of care and service. This kind of pretension is prevalent in almost all kind of societies in the world where politics became a business instead of service. Jefferson also said: "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical". A small number of people who benefit from the “Pork Barrel” are quite satisfied without realizing its effect in general. As I said, it is a tool in the dirty politics of men to gain control and maintain power over the people. The more we rely on government, the more control it can exert upon us. Gerald Ford once said to the congress: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” Those who believe that government can, should and/or must support them are in great error. Directly supporting the people in their daily needs is not the proper role of government. The belief that people cannot survive without the government is even worse. This mentality is actually the apparatus – the framework of mind - used to brain washed people in many of the socialist countries in the world. History reveals its failure. Because of this belief, people willingly surrender their God given rights to their leaders whom they treat as saviors. A great thinker like Benjamin Franklin said: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” He also said: “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." In a country where public provisions for the so called poor are provided - at the expense of the right of the responsible people to live in happiness out of their toil – the norm became – as in the words of Walter Williams: "...The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government".
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:12:16 +0000
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