First. You talk of ending all entitlements. Old people would be unable to afford medicine. Young mothers would lose WIC assistance. School lunches for the poor would end.
People would turn to crime. They would rob and steal to provide for their kids, parents, or grand parents.
That would mean a lot of cops were needed. Those cops would make arrests and the jails would become so overcrowded that they had to release some. The events that happen now and the RW runs around with their hair on fire.
So you would need more cops. More jails. More of everything. So the whole due process of law would be curtailed. We don’t have time for long drawn out trials. We need to get the criminals into the new prisons we are building right? So we just curtail the whole process. Jury’s are a pain and not needed when we know they are guilty right?
Then the real problems begin. The rich can manage more rights than the poor and the poor do what they have always done in history. They rebel. So we get rid of rights to assemble. We get rid of all those pesky freedoms. This is to stop the poor from rising up.
We hire even more cops, which costs more money, and higher taxes again. We have to do this for public safety. We have to get tough on crime right?
Then the poor start shooting the cops. And others. Well we have to stop the wrong sort from having guns. We just have to. Those cities are dangerous. Good and decent people can’t go to work at the banks, and other good businesses.
Ten years. And you’ll be paying more taxes and living in a bunker with bars on the windows. Twenty years and we will either be a fascist nation or a socialist nation. Either way we all lose so you can get rid of something you don’t use so nobody should.
Do it. Hell I would love to watch when they line the fat cats up against the wall. I’m old enough that I probably won’t survive another ten years anyway.
You are too dumb to understand how anything works. All those entitlements you decry. They are drops of water to a man dying of thirst. To give the person a little help, and a little hope. So Grandma can afford the meds to let her live a little longer. To let a family provide more nutritious food for Junior while Dad and mom struggle to make ends meet.
These programs don’t cost half what the alternatives would cost. You want to imagine that people with nothing will just sit and endure being hungry. Have you ever really been hungry? Have you ever dove into a trash can for food? I did. In the Army. As part of my training. To learn what it was like. To experience the desperation. To see if we had the fortitude to continue with indescribable hunger gnawing at our insides.
That was temporary. That was a short term event. But one that gave me a hint of the importance of what we take for granted.
Your plan would destroy the nation. Your plan would cause massive social upheaval and the only answer your plan would embrace is getting tough. Get tough with the freeloaders. Get tough on the lazy slackers. Get tough with crime.
It hasn’t ever worked. But we can prove we will do it better. Somehow. Or something.
