Thursday, March 28, 2024

Those who really care: 'Tough Love' manifested

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What is the benefit of being a "Compassionate Conservative"?
It shows that you understand those less fortunate who do certain things to get by in life, but some of those "things," may be hard to swallow.
I am a dual Canadian-American citizen, but served in the American military and have spent 59 years in America and only three in Canada, yet I will always honor the intimate friendship Canadians and Americans have cherished for at least 100-plus years.
On the other hand, perhaps times for adjustment are ahead.
The cross-border trade is the greatest such relationship in the world. Both peoples benefit. However, the tough love I'm talking about leans towards Conservative fiscal policies and not Socialism as practiced in Canada, Great Britain and indeed most of our allies.
To me, that idea of Socialism or Communism is not an easy concept to simply dismiss without understanding the sheer power of giving people food, health care, shelter and other things.
These people quickly become dependent on the largesse of their, unbeknownst to them, tyrannical government.
They are hooked on this false "love" just as assuredly as our modern-day opioid addicts are hooked on the "love" of their lives - that drug that gets them by in life.
It is the duty of every conservative to illuminate those who ignorantly take government funds, grants and loans without understanding the repercussions of strict regulation when those monies are applied. The regulations are built into the loan, grant or even original budget. School Districts around the nation are a typical example of this syndrome. The grants, payments per child per school day attendance policies and the overall U.S. Department of Education attitude towards curriculum is anti-local government. When any of our school districts takes money from special interests, including tyrannical governments, they will have to pay back that entity with strict adherence to whatever regulations are imposed on them.
That is also the case with Canada, Great Britain and many other of our allies. We are allies culturally, economically, militarily and even religiously and that means an awful lot, but it doesn't mean we are agreed on the day-to-day fiscal policies viv-a-vis helping our people.
America is not the land of socialism, even though it is brimming with agencies that practice same. We are the "Land of Opportunity" and that cannot be achieved nor maintained through acts of socialistic largesse.
Please get your children off the couch now so they don't get hooked on the concept of free room and board, free education, free health care, free champagne and caviar. America is, in fact, the land of the free, but as the cliché goes, "Freedom isn't free."
The youngsters who join the military are treated to many benefits, but make no mistake about it, they could die for their country at any time.
I cannot say the same for those on welfare or other programs where nothing is ever asked of them in return.
I am in favor of charter schools, private schools and religious schools because they aren't all taking government money to exist. The parents of these children are paying the freight themselves and therefore not beholding to any government or private entity outside of its control.
We need to teach our kids and grandkids the value of hard work and learning skills for real life beyond the classroom before they land in college and all decide to study computer science.
Once that happens, they will just as bad as anybody who has done nothing in life, but still expects to be taken care of by the greater society.
Enough with the constant infatuation with boxed intelligence, teach the young to explore and play and experiment with what they need to get to first base in the real world.
After that, it's up to them.
It has always been thus.

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