One of the great tragedies of this nation abandoning the Judeo-Christian ethics platform, upon which it was founded and constructed, is the disappearance of the work ethic. We are currently probably very near a 50 percent level of citizens who are no longer interested in being producers of goods or services. They have been lured into the zombie-like slavery of a nation-destroying welfare system. The joys of creativity, innovation, and making the world a better place during their brief stay on this planet seem to be unknown concepts to them. It sometimes seems that while the last three generations of parents were maybe overly occupied with making a living for themselves and their children, the government and the education systems of this country were busy making Godless, dumbed down parasites out of our succeeding generations, that had somehow escaped the Roe vs. Wade ruling and survived the womb. The very necessary learning of history, economics, and civics, so critically needed to maintain a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, were quietly discarded. Quietly slipped into their place were sex education, basket weaving and ceramics. The Ten Commandments disappeared and situational ethics appeared. The critical component of our country’s continuing contribution to its future, the family, slowly deteriorated into one-parent operations, and sometimes, no parents were available for this vital building block of any society.
It seems a world away that John Kennedy was asking us not to ask what this country could do for us; but to ask what we could do for this country. And this country is providing welfare checks, food stamps, cell phones, housing, medical care, etc., to a greater percentage of its citizens than any time in its history. It has greater percentage of its citizens working for the bureaucratic entities within our government than ever before. They are paid more to do less than ever before. Just look at the VA scandal for the latest example. They get their salaries whether they treat one veteran or ten of them, so they don’t have a lot of concern for the 9 they didn’t get to today. The people’s money is being spent to provide bonuses for just showing up at work, not for performing above the expectations of the job.
The joy and satisfaction of doing a job well, regardless of the type job, must have a resurgence as a life objective for our citizens. The Christian Bible admonishes its adherents to do whatever they do as if they were doing it to please the Creator of the universe. I can’t see it to be a detriment to a society if all work being done within it were being done with such an aspiration in the worker’s mind.
A return to the honoring of commitments and agreements should begin. Whether the commitment is to your wife, husband, child, mother, father, friend, partner, significant other, company, community, or country, it should be pursued to its completion with all that is within us.
Materialism should be pursued only to the extent that our basic needs are being met, with some left over for enjoying our pastimes. Conspicuous consumption with ostentatious overages of stuff is a great indicator of low self-esteem. When you have more than you really need, share some of it with others. The reason there is more joy in giving than receiving is because you are blessed beyond your needs and are given the opportunity to be generous.
And finally we should have a country with a government that allows its citizens to believe in the god of their choice, and be able to practice that belief freely, without restrictions being imposed on their practice of that belief, as long as the practice of that belief does not inflict cruelty on others. Atheists believe in nothing, and they have a symbol. Other faiths have symbols as well. The suppressing of the personal display of those symbols should not be necessary in a free society.
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