A Fence Is Defense

My boss, Principal Manuel Arredondo, recently lamented the building of walls to keep people out of the U.S.:

"Our founding fathers set up our school system to help our country preserve its ideals and its freedoms. It is ignorance which enslaves us and is the enemy of our democracy and our values. 'We hold this truth to be self-evident that all people are created equal.' These are the most beautiful words ever written and studied in the world. Our educational system has been in the forefront of change and insuring that we preserve our freedoms and making this beautiful message come alive for all of us.

We are building fences to keep people out (which is truly a terrible thing) and not to keep them from leaving. How many times have we heard someone forsaking the United States of America to go elsewhere? People will sacrifice everything they have to come to our country. We need to tear down any obstacle that keeps people from coming but we must also to (sic) preserve our freedom through education. We must continue to welcome all with open arms knowing that this makes our country what it is and must continue to be. We must continue to have universal education for all."

Mr. Arredondo means well. Even so, our Founders bequeathed us neither "democracy" nor the educational ruin we have today. When asked what form of government we had, Benjamin Franklin responded: "A Republic...if you can keep it!"

We haven't kept it.

Our country and government have been corrupted, contaminated by socialist seeds sown a century ago. Our schools now are tools of mass miseducation; incubators of socialist indoctrination (now masquerading as "environmentalism"), Godlessness, immorality, anti-Americanism, open borders, and political correctness: the bane of personal freedom and our "republican" form of government.

I responded:

Mr. Arredondo,

I, too, believe that erecting walls to keep people out of the U.S. is a terrible thing...but for an entirely different reason than you do!

Over the past 100 years, our little experiment with "freedom" has morphed into a monstrous "welfare" state, without which “magnet” we wouldn’t need walls. We have erected an "entitlement" bureaucracy and fostered a class of people who now subsist primarily on the beneficence and labors of the U.S. taxpayer.

20% of U.S. citizens now get 75% (or more) of their income from the federal government. Another 20% receive at least 45% of their income from federal coffers. Thus, NEARLY HALF of all Americans now get much (if not most) of their income from the federal government, while NEARLY HALF pay little or no federal income taxes!

I’m in the TOP 25% of income earners in this country and I paid NO FEDERAL TAXES this year! I haven’t paid federal taxes in 10 years! Why? Because I’m one of those “beneficiaries” profiting from the labors of those “others” who PAY taxes.

By what right do I claim their assets? The fruits of THEIR labors? How am I any different from the slave owner residing comfortably in the “big house” while others toil, on my behalf, in the fields?

Not only do I NOT pay federal income tax, I GET A CHECK from the federal government for SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH YEAR! That’s right! Others are working for me! I just sit back and collect the spoils of their labor. It’s a great system.

It’s a criminal racket!!!

How can we call it anything but “slavery”? One-half of our population is forced to support the other half. The majority (of “beneficiaries”) continues to heap larger and larger burdens on the backs of the “providers” (i.e., U.S. tax payers).

Insidiously, our nation's laws ENCOURAGE laziness, extravagance, going on the dole, remaining unemployed, not getting married. In short, our “entitlement” government DESTROYS thrift, independence, personal responsibility and initiative.

It’s bad enough that the productive members of our society -- by compulsory means, rather than by true charity -- now support the unproductive (and less productive) "dwellers" in America. (We can't call them all "citizens" anymore, because we know tens of millions are here illegally!) The U.S. provides numerous benefits to its residents, citizen and law-breaker alike: welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, subsidized housing, WIC, free lunch, free medical care, free education, social services.

With all these "freebies", who WOULDN'T come here?!

HALF THE WORLD would move here TOMORROW, if they could! (Can they all come live at YOUR house?)

Of course, NONE of this "free stuff" is really "free". It must ALL be paid for. And WE’RE footing the bill. Of course, the REAL costs are astronomical. We could DOUBLE the amount taxpayers now pay and still not pay the bills already owed.

So our government resorts to BORROWING...and printing money like crazy. TRILLIONS of dollars each year. My children and your children are now ENSLAVED by this enormous debt -- to feed, clothe, house, medicate, educate, adjudicate and incarcerate tens of millions who have come here ILLEGALLY.

Plus Granny, who was supposed to die at 62 – and NEVER COLLECT Social Security – now lives into her 100’s and collects taxpayer-paid benefits for up to HALF her adult life! By “gaming” the system, many now put in little, but “get back” MILLIONS – at our expense.

You want to know why we need walls, Mr. Arredondo? For the same reason you lock your doors at night: To protect what is ours from those who would take it from us.

And, oh yes, they are TAKING it from us! They are CLAIMING it for themselves. They are "entitled" to it. They claim the "right" to be supported by others -- by U.S.! What does that make U.S.?

SLAVES.

Even now our nation groans under the burden of this ruinous entitlement economy and mountainous debt. Left unchecked, it will DESTROY our union. (This is NOT what our Founders envisioned.)

And what will we inherit in its place?

Mexico del Norte?

Why do we build walls, Mr. Arredondo? Because we’re racists? Because we lack empathy for the less fortunate?

No.

We do it for SELF-PRESERVATION.

Even WITH a wall, our society crumbles from within. Unwed mothers (of every nationality) proliferate, adding to the social burden. Retired government workers inflate their salaries with overtime and administrative duties in their final years, capped off by “disabilities” incurred in their final months, “entitling” them to tax-free income (at public expense!) for life! Under-funded pensions created by labor unions now drag our economy into the abyss!

And, again, why?

Because of this “entitlement” mentality. The liberal-progressive agenda (Marxist socialism) is destroying U.S.

Denying this fact bespeaks of ignorance even advanced degrees cannot eradicate.