The Carrot On a Stick. How the Federal Government Leads Us Into Their Control.

You know the image of the horse that wont budge so the trainer ties a string to a carrot, hangs the string at the end of a stick and dangles it in front of the horses face to get him to move? That is exactly what the federal government does to us when they want control over a certain aspect of our lives. Except the carrot is money.

Government only has what it steals from its citzens. Up until 1913 there was no federal income tax, the country seemed to survive well without it up until that point, but with the power to tax comes to the power to control. It is evident in the fact that all of our public schools are federally funded and have to follow federal guidelines for lesson plans. Since when did a few elected officials or bureaucrats become smarter than our teachers? Since when did it become a good idea to allow our government to decide what should be taught to children? It became a good idea when the thought of the federal government withholding their funding would lead to the demise of our schools. The power of the federal government to control education is nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution. It is not news that the public school system in the U.S. is a complete failure, while privately funded schools who have to compete with each other offer a better option for kids.

The same argument can now be applied to the health care industry. If you cant afford health insurance, they'll give you a tax rebate so you can buy it. So now you feel the government has saved you from the evil greedy health care companies, but youve given away your right to decide what is best for you. The power to tell a person what to buy or be jailed is nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution. By the way, when you buy health care with your carrot on a stick, oops i mean tax rebate, you will be buying it from the same evil greedy health care companies that supposedly got us into this mess. If that isnt a sneaky handout from the government to those companies than I dont know what is....

Also, deciding to make it a law that companies have to cover people with pre-existing conditions does nothing to control costs. It actually does the exact opposite. If companies are forced to cover people known to be ill, how would that not directly effect the overall costs of insurance? It has to. The idea of insurance is that you pay for it and get to use it when an emergency HAPPENS. You cant drive a car around without insurance, get into an accident then go buy insurance the next day to cover that accident. It makes no sense. It will eventually lead to the failure of multiple health care companies, which will then lead to the government once again saying "only government can fix this". But what will the fix be then? A full out government operated health care system? If that doesnt scare you then you must already be dead.

I thought in the 20th century we learned that central planning by government eventually lead to the financial collapse and ruin of a nation? There are two ways to look at all these promises and handouts made by elected officials. One is that these people actually care about us. That they truly know, from their nice offices in Washington D.C. what is best for each and everyone of us. But how can that be when we keep learning of another corrupt politician striking deals for their friends? So the second way to look at it is that the government handouts are bribes to not only make us think they care about us, but a way to keep us in our place. We'll never have to work hard to live a better life because the government is there to take care of us. It is also a way to ensure votes from the middle and lower classes. Promise the people some sort of handout and of course they'll keep voting you in. The problem is that eventually a welfare state who is involved in never ending wars becomes too much of a financial burden on itself and the whole thing collapses. It would be very naive to think what has happened to great empires of the past cannot happen to the United States.