Social Security
Social Medicine (aka Universal Health Care)
Whatever else
All these socialized services sound like good ideas at first glance. It sounds like what we are doing is taking care of everyone. And when I say “we are taking care of everyone” I mean “we” as in everyone of us who pays taxes, whether we like it or not. That is a good thing to do, right?
But wait, was that not also Lucifer’s plan? If I remember correctly he said, “I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost”. Then God said, “Wherefore, Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man”. (Moses 4:1,3) Hmmm, that should give us cause to reconsider.
It is a nice idea, using tax money, but from a political perspective I personally think that the fewer things we push onto our government, the better. Glenn Beck said it best recently, “If we give our government power over something they will take it and they will never give it back.” The more freedoms we give to our government, the less we have as a people and the more socialistic our country becomes. Socialism introduced by tyrants is one thing, but socialism created by laziness and apathy on the part of a free people is just a pathetic waste of a democratic republic.
The Oxford American Dictionary says this about Socialism: “(in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.”