A local newspaper ran an editorial recently offering suggestions
for reducing our prison population. Like
almost all solutions offered for public problems, what we need to do is to hire
more government employees. So let’s hire
another hundred workers at $80,000 a year, and, oh yeah, don’t forget to add
another 50% for their pension costs.
But nobody seems to be asking why so many people commit
crimes in the first place. Does anybody
still remember when people didn’t lock their doors or their cars? And I grew up in Chicago, not some small town
in the middle of nowhere.
When people used to ask the question about a person’s
behavior, the answer was always in the upbringing, how the person’s parents
raised them.
But wait. We have
normalized single parenthood, where people don’t have to get married to have
children, and fathers don’t need to be in the home to help raise that
child. There used to be a stigma here,
but that was considered judgmental. The government
is very willing to provide whatever financial assistance a person needs to raise
that child by themselves.
We have also normalized women working outside the home. First we did it by telling women that they
needed careers to be happy, fulfilled, and equal to men. Then we did it through our economic policies
that sent millions of good paying jobs overseas, so that the only jobs left for
most people are grocery stores and fast food restaurants. Our economic policies also replaced fulltime
jobs with parttime jobs, so as a result of our policies, spouses no longer
could afford to stay home to be with their children. Everybody has to work just to make ends meet.
In addition we normalized abortion, so children took on more
the status of pets rather than human beings created in the image of God which
we are privileged to bear and raise. As
long as we feed, clothe, and provide them with a place to stay, we have
fulfilled our responsibility as parent(s).
Our schools used to teach values, but this was done in the context
of religious beliefs, specifically Christianity. But the court we call supreme said that the government
cannot aid religion in any way. Some
people who have studied American history will ask what the bleep schools have
to do with government anyway. Our First
Congress had Bibles published to be used in our schools, and they were used
there from before our nation’s founding until the middle of the 20th
century, or over 400 years. And now this
is unconstitutional?
So the only values we teach our children today are
tolerance, fairness, equality, and diversity.
The last three are all functions of the government, so the only responsibility
we teach our children is tolerance, which means essentially ignoring your
neighbor, not caring or getting involved in the lives of other people. It’s none of your business.
We used to teach our children to love their neighbors. It shouldn’t be surprising when we see that
they don’t.
