Feb 19 2009
A New Era
Wow, this is a new era-at least for me. So many things are happening that have “never happened before” or “hasn’t happened in years.” For example, legislation has never passed through Congress in a new presidential term so quickly before. In my lifetime, I don’t remember people worrying about Marshall Law, gun control, losing their freedom of speech or talk of taking our retirement money and letting the government that has already spent our Social Security manage it. I don’t remember so many questioning the need to equally distribute the wealth to everyone from those who have earned it to those who haven’t even tried. The expression, “That’s not fair” has been taken out of the classroom and placed in the political arena. Sad thing for me is that I have always told my children, “Life’s not fair, and then we die.” Life has never been fair and it never will be so why are we so hung up on it? Since we are going the route of fairness right now, here are a few fairness questions:
1) Should those who work for a living be expected to support those who can but do not because they choose not to take the steps to improve their lot?
2) Should our children and grandchildren pay for a bail-out that covers (mostly) poorly run companies or situations that lack of care created?
3) Should we worry that every word from our lips will offend someone and that we must apologize for what we technically didn’t say because someone thinks (maybe) we might have meant something by it?
4) Must every reference to monkeys be considered racial even if it wasn’t a single individual that wrote the stimulus package or various children of differing races are climbing through the trees and “monkeying” around?
5) Should we have to worry about an attack on our desire to save money?
6) Should anybody even be able to consider taking and sharing our retirement money?
7) Should we, in all fairness, have to consider these and questions like them?
We are definitely entering a new era, but I’m not convinced it is all good!
