WILL THE AFFLUENT NATIONS AND THE 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES REVERSE ROLES?
I am seeing indications that the great nations of the world that have experienced great success in producing advancing technologies, wealth, high standards of living, and generally comfortable living conditions for all human kind and those countries that have suffered poverty and poor living conditions may be reversing roles. As countries like the United States that have produced exceptional entrepreneurs, willing workers, and great wealth for themselves continue to penalize these entrepreneurs and workers for their success, and reward those who produce nothing and expect others to take care of them; they are seeing greater numbers of people expecting others to take care of them and fewer entrepreneurs and workers willing to take the financial risks and effort required to achieve success when the payback is not worth the effort. Soon these countries reach the point of diminishing returns and the number of free loaders exceeds the willing workers and elects leaders who will continue to soak the producers to support the free loaders. I am not speaking of normal aid for those who truly need assistance, however, once the government takes over this role of determining from who and how much is to be taken from some to support others, it becomes like a snowball rolling down hill and impossible to stop. This is why charity and support for the needy should and must be left to the individual and faith based groups. To see why this is true, one only needs to observe the mess the various governments have made out of their attempts to control this. We have reached the point in the United States where corrupt individuals live in extreme decadence off the tax payers and sit comfortably back and decide that the only groups that do a decent job of providing charity to the needy (religious groups) need to relinquish this responsibility to the government. Catholic orphanages, hospitals, and organizations that provide valuable services to the needy are threatened with closure because the government does not want competition in this area and uses the guise that it is because Catholic organizations insist on living their moral truths which conflicts with the governments’ ideology of relativism. This is a very conclusive indicator of a government gone totally out of control and one that exists solely for itself and not for its citizens. Looking back in history we see how our government stepped into this role in the 1930’s with social security under the guise again of being for the people. This was later expanded into Medicare and Medicaid in the sixties. The trillions of dollars paid into these programs by the citizens of the United States has for the most part been wasted by those entrusted to run these programs. Now 40, 50, 60, and 70 years later those who have paid into these programs their entire lives are made to feel like beggars and told the government cannot afford to take care of their medical needs as they grow older and they should (as our current president suggests) avoid expensive lifesaving surgery and take a pain pill instead. Now because the social security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs are broke, the government instead of responsibly facing the issue and developing a reasonable plan to work our way out of this mess; again expands this failed program and attempts to drive the private suppliers of health care out of business and grab the insurance premiums for themselves so they can continue to operate like there is no tomorrow and continue to feed their enormous appetite for luxury for themselves. Now the question is; how long will the wealthy remain subject to these oppressive governments? The government leaders have carefully put in place safe guards against corporations and citizens taking their wealth and leaving the country. Programs such as the 401’s, IRA’s, etc. that severely punish financially anyone who closes out one of these accounts to acquire liquidity and leave the country. However, corporations and individuals are not stupid; like the government they can also find loopholes and means of taking the money and run. We are currently seeing this happen in France where they recently elected another socialist that will bleed the rich to support the enormous give away programs to which the citizens there have become accustomed. Reports recently state that many of the affluent in France are moving to the UK and other more friendly locations. This leads me to the reason for this article; how far will this trend go? Will it also happen in the United States? I believe it already has to some extent; many of the rich have purchased homes in other countries and undoubtedly have moved money to of shore accounts. I do not see how this will not grow in the future based on the direction of our current government. What will governments do next to stem this tide? That is a very serious question; communist governments of the past have made a practice of nationalizing private property; is this the next step of our government? Another very disturbing thing currently being reported (reported only by the conservative media, not the mainstream media) is that the current administration is negotiating with the United Nations in attempts to bring the United States into a global agreement that would virtually neutralize our internal congress and courts and make them subject to the United Nations. This could be a plan devised by those pushing for more government control to insure that no place on earth will be a sanctuary for innovation and individual success.