Obama’s Culture of Service adds insult to injury
One of the things President Obama has been touting is his idea of a "culture of service" in which we all do something to "give back" and help the country.
What? Seriously?
Last I checked, most of us spend the first several months of the year serving our local, state, and federal governments. The average person doesn't start earning more than his annual combined tax bill until March or April (for the country as a whole, it's known as Tax Freedom Day, and the date was April 23rd last year).
So in addition to the involuntary service government extracts from us under threat of violence, the Prez has the gall to ask us to give up even more of our life to serve the country? Talk about adding insult to injury. And on top of that he wants to use the money his agents confiscate from us to fund national service programs! Is there a better definition of insanity?
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for volunteer work to do those things in our communities that just wouldn't get done by for-profit entities. But the best way to facilitate more of that would be to reduce our taxes and end the inefficient and malincented government programs that purport to do those same things (like welfare, Medicare, Social Security, the various service programs, etc).
When many Americans are struggling just to feed their kids and keep their water and power on, they don't need the government's Enforcer-in-Chief telling them to sacrifice even more. They need that 20-30% of their paychecks that is stolen from them.
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