Let’s play a game.
I’m a man, a human who has a family and works hard to provide for them. Let’s say I’m a farmer and I raise chickens. Let’s say that a fox keeps getting a chicken from the barnyard every so often. It really irritates me that a chicken is being stolen from my barnyard; it’s reducing my family income, maybe even preventing the meat from making it to the table. What to do?
Well, being a good farmer, I set a trap. I got that pesky fox and turned it over to wildlife management who took it away. I didn’t lose a chicken for weeks. Then one day I started losing chickens again, this time to a different fox. Well, I caught that one and called wildlife management again and they took it. This went on for a couple more foxes and then I got a notice from wildlife management. They just passed a new law and I had to surrender a chicken to them every week and it would be used to cut down the number of foxes.
Sure enough, the foxes stopped coming around for a long time. Then a new fox showed up. Wildlife management changed the law and now required two chickens. After a while they demanded more chickens even though no more foxes came around. Soon, I found wildlife management was feeding my chickens to the foxes. The foxes knew where to go to get free chickens without the bother of my farm and it’s traps. That explained why I hardly saw anymore foxes. I was appalled.
Wildlife management had passed a law to take my chickens and feed them to the foxes I had been trying to -prevent- eating my chickens. I was outraged; how dare they -take- my chickens to feed the foxes I didn’t want eating my chickens. How dare they take food off my table to feed the scourge plaguing my farm.
Let’s change that story:
I’m a man, a human who has a family and works hard to provide for them. Let’s say I’m a farmer and I raise chickens. Let’s say some -criminal- keeps stealing a chicken from the barnyard every so often. It really irritates me that a chicken is being stolen from my barnyard; it’s reducing my family income, maybe even preventing the meat from making it to the table. What to do?
Well, being a good farmer, I set a trap. I got that pesky criminal and turned him over to police who took him away. I didn’t lose a chicken for weeks. Then one day I started losing chickens again, this time to a different criminal. Well, I caught that one and called the police and they took him. This went on for a couple more criminals and then I got a notice from the government. They just passed a new law and I had to surrender a chicken to them every week and it would be used to cut down the number of criminals.
Sure enough, the criminals stopped coming around for a long time. Then a new criminal showed up. The government changed the law and now required two chickens. After a while they demanded more chickens even though no more criminals came around. Soon, I found the government was feeding my chickens to the criminals. The criminals knew where to go to get free chickens without the bother of my farm and it’s traps. That explained why I hardly saw anymore criminals. I was appalled.
The government had passed a law to take my chickens and feed them to the criminals I had been trying to -prevent- eating my chickens. I was outraged; how dare they -take- my chickens to feed the criminals I didn’t want eating my chickens. How dare they take food off my table to feed the scourge plaguing my farm.
Where does this stop? It’s no longer enough to try and grant equal access to people; allowing them the opportunity to work hard and earn a living. Today we must “entitle” them to have anything and everything anybody has. If they don’t have it, we should give it to them in the form of money. They don’t have a job? Take your money and give it to them, they are entitled. No food and can’t raise their own? Take your money and give it to them, they are entitled. No health care? Take your money and give it to them, they are entitled to it.
The government has become the fox stealing my chickens. They hide it behind laws of “entitlement” for others and tell me it’s what I should be doing on my own but they have to mandate it and regulate it, choosing for me where my money should go. They take away the rights I have to keep what I work for; they make me a slave to support others without giving me an option to choose who I want to help or how. They are the fox stealing my chickens.
It turns out fox fur makes nice coats. I know how to deal with foxes stealing chickens now.
Do you?
Asa Jay
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