Topic: The other entitlement crowd
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Sat 03/22/14 08:26 AM
Edited by alnewman on Sat 03/22/14 08:29 AM
While most are familiar with the entitlement crowd which on a large part based their existent upon the riches of others. They feel they are "entitled" to be supported in some way or another rather than take personal responsibility and rectify their own ills. They believe this entitlement should come at the point of a government "gun" that can take from the ones that can to give to the ones that won't.

But what about that other entitlement class, the rich, the elite class. Are they really any different than the poor class in regards to entitlements? First, let's step back and look at this from a natural standpoint, the laws of nature.

By the very laws of nature, man is created equal without regards to race or gender. We are each endowed with unalienable rights by our creator, which as the Declaration of Independence so eloquently stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Now the very earliest man understood these principles unequivocally, there was no other way. They understood they had the liberty to travel wide and far to find the food and shelter necessary to support life. They understood that to not pursue that which enhanced their lives, happiness, meant their demise.

Now as the Declaration of Independence has so ardently stated, "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,...". But has this always been so, not really, it just is not in the makeup of primitive man, those destined to rule by violence. It was not until that first free man determined to either live free or die that instilled what could be.

Man started in this world as gatherers and hunters in order to sustain life, first for self and family. In times of plenty, when there was enough to go around, everything was great. But in times of scarcity, the survival instinct of man takes over and there is contention. And then families gather together as tribes much as the natives of this fine country had pursued. But still these were nomadic tribes that out of necessity for that lifestyle moved about in the constant search for food. But what is unique is the tribe sharing in the bounties equally. All did their part, all shared in the bounty.

Then man learned to plant roots and become responsible for the production of his own food and shelter, the concept of property beyond labor. It is this concept beyond any other that has produced the entitlement crowd, in those days better know as criminals.

Now as we move forward, it took the industrial age to produce the rich or elitist class. First there was the strong industrialist that built his empire from scratch to riches. He endured much, he suffered much but he persevered and became a wealthy industrialist. But such was his endeavor and thus his just reward, he earned it.

But in earning it, he did not do so on the backs of others, he treated those that helped achieve greatness fairly and shared the wealth fairly according to each mans contribution. The more value they added, the larger the reward, but no man was cheated of his just due. So where did it all go wrong?

It all started with the world of the investors, the bankers of the world. Those that desired to profit not from the fruits of their labors but from the fruit of another's labor. Those that discovered they could tax another's labor by the use of money rather than effort. Those that have removed man from the earth and placed him at the mercy of another for not just his livelihood, but his very existence. However, using real money, a thing of value, just did not accomplish that goal. To get where we are today, it became necessary to separate value and instill currency as money. Now man has just become a slave with no value in search of money that likewise has no value all for the benefit of the worse entitlement class, the elite. We have but become slaves for those that think that have obtained a "right" to our lives and our freedoms, the entitlement of the elite.

So for the people of these united States, it brings us back full circle, to the opening thought in the Declaration of Independence:


When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


It is time we reject the political parties, all of them, and return to the free men we were destined to be.