Who are these selfish people of whom I speak? All those who believe that just by the fact of their existence, somebody owes them. Those who think that just because they live, they have the right to make claims against the fruits of my labor; who have no qualms about having others confiscate what I have earned for my family and my future by threat of force and violence.
People who have not done what I have had to do to get where I am...who haven't gone in debt to get the education they need to find a good paying job...who didn't walk over a mile to where they could hitch a ride to school for this training...those who haven't been careful to make decisions along the way to get the experience they need to advance...who still think they have a right to my labor so that they can have cable TV, a cell phone, cigarettes and beer...these are some of the selfish people of whom I speak. These are the members of the entitlement class.
The other selfish group are those who care only about their own power and position...the ruling class elites. This group wields the weapons of force to confiscate the fruits of my labor to buy the votes of the entitlement class. They care little for either the producer or the entitled. They will do whatever they must to accrue more and more power unto themselves...even to the point of paying for their lust on the backs of generations yet unborn. They don't care if their policies of ever increasing and irresponsible spending cause future calamity for society, as long as they get the control they crave now.
It is not the producer, who works to provide for himself and his family, who asks nothing of anyone else, who is selfish. It is not selfish to want to keep hold of what you have worked for...this is a foundational principle upon which our country was based. The producer does not mind chipping in for basic services that make modern life possible, but they should not be expected to pay for a hugely bloated bureaucracy that seems geared toward squeezing more and more of the juice from the fruits of his labor every year. He should not be forced to pay for those too short-sighted...or just plain lazy to take care of themselves and their own families.
Whatever the producers pay seems never to be enough for the entitled and the elite. We are supposed to be happy to endure another tax, or fee hike, "It's for the common good," they say. And after all, "it's only a few more dollars, what's the big deal?" But, it's the cumulative effect of a few dollars for this tax, and that tax and the other fee, year after year that has brought the burden on the producer to be more than 50% of most people's income...and still it is not enough. We are told that we shouldn't be so selfish. The hubris! The unmitigated gall! No, it is not we, the productive class, who are selfish. It is the entitled and elite. Without the producers the whole system collapses under it's own weight...and there are less and less producers and more and more...parasites every year.
This is what I mean about being sick-and-tired...this is who I mean when I say,
Selfish People Suck!
