Sesame, I totally agree with you. I'm not opposed to betterment for your situation and such. I'm all for fairness and equality for everyone. However, I do disagree only with one statement you made. Please allow me to explain before you pass a judgment on me.
"The Government is there to ease and facilitate my life. The Govt. is an elected body to smoothen the flow of life for it's citizens. The role of any Govt. is to provide food, housing, medical care, sanitation and security at the least expense, and nothing more than that. The Govt is there for the good of the people, not the reverse. When the rulers create burdens for the common people, complicate normal life and take away our freedom, it has failed to serve it's purpose. It needs correction."
Firstly, it is for the good of the people. It helps maintain order, secure our rights, defend us, etc. Government is for the people and the greater good.
But...
The government isn't there to ease our lives and facilitate them. The government is not there to give you food, shelter, and all that. This kind of thinking is part of the secular progressive ideology. And it holds, as a basic tenent, that government has to provide citizens with happiness. This kind of belief turns a society into an entitlement society. And sadly, some nations have already fell to this cancer and now have large numbers of people who are lazy and shiftless and expect the government to take care of them.
The government is only responsible for ensuring our rights, providing us the opportunity through our own hardwork and efforts to better ourselves. The government can, and should, aid and assist those who are for numerous possible reasons unable to do so. The government defends us from aggressors. It provides laws to protect us from one another and punish the offenders. It strives to create some common playing field.
Please do not point out the flaws in this government though for I'm well aware of them. No government is perfect. And no government ever will be. Government is always in state of change and, hopefully, always striving for the best.
But under no circumstances should the government provide everything, ease your life and facilitate it. You might as well say the government owes you happiness. You can find this secular progressive ideology in a book called Elephant by a George Lakoff.
What happens in such a government there becomes a state in which everyone becomes dependent on the government. It creeps into many aspects of our daily lives from education, employment, retirement, health and on. And in such a world our taxes would be incredibly high. Unless of course said government begins to employ redistribution of wealth which is more like socialism.
Government should make life more fair for you. It ought to create an even playing field where you can be free of discrimination and treated as an equal. And I wish that it would. I'd never want you to be unduly burdened or suffer while I have a better lot.
But you are part of a minority I sadly must point out. It's a balancing act. Government can't afford to favor one minority too much because it often affects another minority or even the majority. How much can do for this group without it oppressing or unsettling the other?
Kennedy said "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."
Those are brilliant words. To me, I interpret them as saying "serve your fellow countrymen do expect your nation to serve you."
And I believe in it. So I do indeed support you and everyone like you. But I am not supportive of any notion that the government should provide happiness and ease our lives. I don't this to turn into an entitlement society like other nations.
What needs be done, I think, is continue fighting and calling attention to the needs of your community and gathering support. Carve out some equality and justice. But don't expect special treatment by virtue of your special needs. This isn't how a government should work.
Anyway, I hope I've not offended you. Not my intention. I simply wish to challenge your view that the government owes you an easy life.
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