The Age of Entitlements

We’re in the Age of Entitlements.  You may have noticed all the challenges of this administration’s Affordable Health Care Act.  Health care is not the topic of this article. I am passionate about people taking responsibility for their own success in life.

Because of small business owners and network marketing, the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well.  But still so many are depending on others to survive. Age of entitlements?  I don’t know about you but I’ve noticed a resurgence of the “New Deal, Great Society.”   If you don’t know what that is, I don’t have time for a history lesson, just Google it.   Here’s one of my pet peeves whether Republican or Democrat, why does the government insist on insinuating that it’s their responsibility to “create jobs?’  Sure, the government can create taxpayer-funded jobs all day but that’s not job creation or a result of a free market capitalistic system.  Why do people insist on depending on Government to create jobs and more entitlements?   Was that the intent of our founding fathers to assure that every person is taken care of in the United States and around the world?

Entrepreneurs and business owners create real jobs and real opportunities.  Since when has the government managed any kind of business or program for that matter without going bankrupt?  Both parties have expanded government over the last 100 years or so, something our founding fathers fought to prevent.   Government jobs and programs require taxpayers to pay the bill — that’s not real economic growth.

What’s the solution?  Go out and be an entrepreneur. Start a business and create opportunities.  Keep taking responsibility and contributing to the lives of others.  The only entitlement I want is less government and the freedom to build my own business and future.  How about you?  Abe Lincoln said it well.  “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”