As of this writing, we are into the longest government “shutdown” in history. The good news is the shutdown is exposing the evils of government-funded welfare and how many people could work but refuse to. Welfare, intended to be temporary and for those physically and mentally disabled, has been abused by the able-bodied for decades in levels we can scarcely afford. I long knew there are dependent Americans who actually feel entitled to other people’s money, but the levels of entitlement shocked even me. One SNAP recipient actually said online, “It is the responsibility of taxpayers to feed my kids.” People online have said if they do not get their food stamps, they will just steal food from the stores…or people. I don’t doubt they will. This is the expected outcome of government-funded charity and the destruction of the work ethic and self-reliance it causes. This shutdown will hopefully force massive entitlement reform, more so than we saw in the 1990s.
This shutdown also reveals that our federal government is involved in way more than it should be, judging by how many things we are being told are not being funded now.
Senators say the filibuster is necessary, that it forces the two parties to work together in the Senate to get sixty votes. Of course, if both Democrats and Republicans had been obeying ...
