I should tell you about the New Americans, for you might read it, and wish to be one of them. The Americans were a good people to begin with, but now, they took it up a notch.
They lived in a day of a ballooning national debt, and a good share of that was due to the great number of social programs. Now, I ask you, what good American would ever want to take anything away from the needy, the homeless, the less fortunate?
Certainly not a good American.
But, let me tell you what the New Americans did. They rose up in a rebellion, of sorts. Oh, don't take it like that. No, I do not at all mean they got out their arms and went to war with their own country. Now, there were a number of folks around that would have done just that.
But, not the New Americans.
No, they went about their rebelling just a little bit differently. They looked all these social programs and wondered if maybe the best way to get rid of them was to offer their own programs, alternatives, if you will. So, these New Americans set about doing what somehow they hadn't quite thought of doing right up till then.
Disabled? The New Americans were there for them, offering them jobs and money and food.
Out of work? No fear. The New Americans would find them a new job, even if it meant creating it in order to get them one.
Facing a massive medical bill with no insurance? Step over here. This was one of the most expensive and difficult endeavours the New Americans faced. At first, they scrambled to come up with enough money to pay all these bills outright. Then, they finally started persuading health-care providers to offer an affordable insurance, discounted down to where the poor could pay for it. The thought was, these folks have been coming into our emergency care centers, and we've had to treat them, anyway, and often without any reimbursement. Why not have them paying at least a little in the way of premiums?
Now, reader, I know your are saying, "This won't work! This won't work.!This won't work! Why would anyone take one of these jobs the New Americans were offering when the government was sitting there perfectly willing to hand out money for nothing?"
As for health care, that might be interesting to see how it would work out, what with Obamacare requiring everyone to buy insurance. Would the New Americans' charity insurance undercut the forced insurance? Probably not, but it might be interesting to see.
Now, reader, you go to sleep tonight knowing that maybe you are right. Maybe this wouldn't work. But, I'm thinking there are a great number of people who do want to work for what they get. I'm thinking there are a great number who would rather have private charity helping them than government. I'm thinking a fair share could be siphoned off from government programs. And, those who remained on government assistance? Well, perhaps their conscience would be pricked. They certainly do not have has much cause to feel guilty of a free ride if there is no alternative. But, when there is an alternative, some of them, surely, will have their consciences pricked.
No, I'm not saying guilt for getting help when they need help. There need be no guilt for that. But, there might should be guilt for getting help for nothing when they can get help in exchange for working.
So, step up, my fellow Americans, my New Americans, and make this happen. You talk of people sitting on their duffs? Well, quit sitting on your own duffs. Get up and do something to bring an end to all the government dole you complain about.
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