Tipping Point

There are two tipping points we're seeing now, both based on the same trends.

The first tipping point is the shift in balance between those who rely on the government for their livelihoods versus those who do not.

Which leads to the second tipping point, which is the number of people who vote in favor of keeping and expanding their share of that government income redistribution.

My reading of polls is that we've become approximately equally divided on both counts. The rolls of retirees who rely on Medicare and Social Security has exploded, along with the rolls of unmarried mothers who rely on Federal and State government welfare to provide their housing, food, and medical care.

Recent local newspaper stories highlighted these tipping points. In one article, we found out that over half of births in local hospitals are covered by Medicaid. What the article failed to mention, I have to suspect purposely, is that those births are overwhelmingly to single women.

A second article announced that our county has now achieved a record level of unemployment. Which is quite remarkable, if we assume that record includes the Great Depression.

Unspoken is the most simple truth: Those who have a good job don't need government assistance, and of course do not need government-controlled healthcare. Married couples with children, unless both parents are unemployed, can and do take care of their own families without government assistance.

So the tipping point has been reached through the failed economy, which I argue was substantially caused by irresponsible government. Then an opportunistic Left took advantage of the opportunity to create massive new entitlement programs with the objective of creating the tipping point, ie a plurality of citizens who must rely on them for their livelihood.

There's no escaping the truth, which is that the President and the leadership of his party are Socialists. They have proven it with the Health Insurance law, and continue to prove it through their continuing agenda.

The priorities of this government going forward are reportedly:
1. Financial Reform - If you think it's only about imposing reasonable regulation on financial institutions to keep them from behaving badly and requiring future bailouts, think again. It actually empowers the Federal Government to nationalize banks whenever they deem it necessary for the general welfare of the country.
2. Immigration Reform - Think it's about sealing borders and dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants? No, it's about making those millions of illegals citizens who will complete the tip-over and provide enough votes to keep the socialist government in power indefinitely.
3. Cap & Trade - Think it's about improving the climate? No, it's the purest form of socialism. It takes money from companies that use energy to produce their products and gives it to somebody else. The somebody else is almost always a crony of the Leftist power base, pretending to make "environmentally friendly" products. This while Al Gore and his cronies pocket a commission on every transaction, becoming richer than Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
4. VAT - Next on the agenda is a brand new tax on everything, assessed on every step of production.

People like me who lived through the Cold War and believed our country to be the antithesis of communist and socialist central control of its citizens never would have believed these tipping points would arrive. But they have.

So now we either bite our tongues and work harder for less money so the government can take our hard-earned wages to give to those who don't work, or we simply join the ranks of the non-working and hope for change.