It's not just about cutting spending

Normally I would save this kind of discussion for the other forum "American-ated" but it's not really about the constitution, it's more about how people think.

Everybody and their brother is getting all fired up about proposed slashes and cuts in federal and state spending.

The real problem isn't the changes that are being proposed, it's the thinking that brought them to this point to begin with.

The idea that the government should be doing everything for everyone is un-realistic. the fact that they try to anyway reeks of people who desire a nanny state. People who want everything done for them.

May I put it simply?

The government should not be involved with what some people want. Their concern is with what all people need.

Big difference.

I talked in another post about how the government spends it's money hiring it's own people to do the jobs that private business should be contracting with them for. I think it's very important for the government not to try to do everything itself. Not to make guarantees it has no business making.

In general, we as a people have decided that health care for everyone is important to us. What we disagree about is how to make sure it happens. Who pays for it, who provides it. How to make sure those scumbags who always find their way into the market don't get away with ripping people off. Those kinds of things.

A healthy population is a strong, working, armed services capable population. It is in the country's best interest to have decent health care for it's citizens. That doesn't mean the government has to pay for it all. They just need to see to it that it happens and that it happens fairly. Or at least as fairly as possible.

There is an old song that has been talked about for decades. "Live and let die". No truer words have ever been spoken. We are a people who have been fed the myth that everyone can live forever. That everyone should live forever. The sad truth is. That's not how nature works. The more we struggle against natural order, the more we convolute things and often make them worse.

People will die, we are made to die. it is asinine to fight to keep someone alive who does not want to be or cannot survive on their own. How many times are we shown the stories of people that laws and stubborn relatives keep alive on feeding tubes and breathing machines against their will and against what would naturally happen without the intervention.

We want to play this mental game that we won't let someone kill themselves to escape the pain and misery of disease and injury. At the same time, we honor and support someone willingly joining the military with a high chance of being sent to the front line of somewhere where intense battles rage and soldiers are sent home by the thousands.

What hypocrites we are. One group volunteers to die and we applaud them, another groups begs to be allowed to die and we refuse out of "mercy".

It's how we think. So what if we cut funding and slash budgets now. If we don't change how we think about things, we will do the same things that got us to this point in the fist place.

What's the point in that?