Policy making is by nature an inherently political process. If there wasn't politics involved, there would be no need for policy, people would just do the right thing in the right moment all the time. An argument could be made that policy helps overcome the collective human apathy. No matter how much you offer free education and access to resources a large percentage of people will never be self-driven enough to consider the effects of their actions on the society around them. In reality, most people can't even be trusted to make the proper decisions for THEMSELVES as seen by the over-use of alcohol, tobacco, drugs and unhealthy foods. But is there more to the story? Absolutely... There are groups of people who are motivated to control others and to create their ideal society to forge the world into a new way. These groups conflict and their agendas are sometimes very far from pure.
Welfare and public healthcare are two big policies that fall under the category of subversive intentions. It is reasonable for people to want their tax dollars spent appropriately and it is the tax payers who pay for these services. Yes there are those who believe in a tax-less libertarian society. Yes there are those who believe that hard work pays off and that opportunity is equal in every aspect of society and if you don’t work hard and make money your just lazy and wasting your American Dream. In my opinion, these views are very short-sided and don’t take into account the reality of the darkness of the human spirit.
I believe racism, classicism, religious intolerance and ethnocentric cultural bias all play MAJOR factors in welfare and healthcare policy. Not only in these policies, I believe these factors play immense roles in the workforce which limits opportunity for said groups to achieve an equal American Dream. Everyone wants a family, everyone wants to hire family, everyone wants to hire someone from their Church. People don’t want their daughters being exposed to successful people of a different type. This horrid intolerance drives much of the social and professional inequality that, without policy, makes it impossible for some people to ever earn proper livable wages.
In this situation, public policy is crucial. In a perfect libertarian world we would all pay cash for our schools. In our corrupt souless American society you could be dang sure that outsiders would never ever even have the opportunity to make enough wages to send there kids to school. Even better, make sure they work so hard for so little pay that when they get sick they can just die off. Public policy regarding welfare and healthcare ensure that people have the RIGHT to live, the RIGHT to be healthy. Even more, they have the RIGHT to have a BASIC educational foundation so that THEY THEMSELVES can become EMPOWERED to be entrepreneurs and start their OWN American Dream for THEIR friends and family.
That is, isn’t it, the true essence of the American Dream? Creating a melting pot of successful entrepreneurs of ALL cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Who does this benefit? These diverse independent business owners will all approach their respective industries with a unique culturally inspired perspective that overall adds value to the nation as a whole. We don’t want a country of laborers, we want a country of extremely varied and diverse groups of people who make sure that the demand for our physical and intellectual products will never grow stale.
And regardless of what some of the traditional supremacists might say, this does benefit everyone. This no-man-left-behind American Dream is what has and will make our country the greatest place on Earth. We are quickly loosing respect world wide and the risk of foreign cultural takeover is real. For this reason, we should strive to empower ALL types of American's to be American so we can stand united and strong.
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Welfare and public healthcare are two big policies that fall under the category of subversive intentions. It is reasonable for people to want their tax dollars spent appropriately and it is the tax payers who pay for these services. Yes there are those who believe in a tax-less libertarian society. Yes there are those who believe that hard work pays off and that opportunity is equal in every aspect of society and if you don’t work hard and make money your just lazy and wasting your American Dream. In my opinion, these views are very short-sided and don’t take into account the reality of the darkness of the human spirit.
I believe racism, classicism, religious intolerance and ethnocentric cultural bias all play MAJOR factors in welfare and healthcare policy. Not only in these policies, I believe these factors play immense roles in the workforce which limits opportunity for said groups to achieve an equal American Dream. Everyone wants a family, everyone wants to hire family, everyone wants to hire someone from their Church. People don’t want their daughters being exposed to successful people of a different type. This horrid intolerance drives much of the social and professional inequality that, without policy, makes it impossible for some people to ever earn proper livable wages.
In this situation, public policy is crucial. In a perfect libertarian world we would all pay cash for our schools. In our corrupt souless American society you could be dang sure that outsiders would never ever even have the opportunity to make enough wages to send there kids to school. Even better, make sure they work so hard for so little pay that when they get sick they can just die off. Public policy regarding welfare and healthcare ensure that people have the RIGHT to live, the RIGHT to be healthy. Even more, they have the RIGHT to have a BASIC educational foundation so that THEY THEMSELVES can become EMPOWERED to be entrepreneurs and start their OWN American Dream for THEIR friends and family.
That is, isn’t it, the true essence of the American Dream? Creating a melting pot of successful entrepreneurs of ALL cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Who does this benefit? These diverse independent business owners will all approach their respective industries with a unique culturally inspired perspective that overall adds value to the nation as a whole. We don’t want a country of laborers, we want a country of extremely varied and diverse groups of people who make sure that the demand for our physical and intellectual products will never grow stale.
And regardless of what some of the traditional supremacists might say, this does benefit everyone. This no-man-left-behind American Dream is what has and will make our country the greatest place on Earth. We are quickly loosing respect world wide and the risk of foreign cultural takeover is real. For this reason, we should strive to empower ALL types of American's to be American so we can stand united and strong.
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