MAKE AMERICA WORK AGAIN

The political gymnastics over agriculture and hospitality workers is not about kindness toward illegals; it's about how lazy our nation has become.  We've incentivized and encouraged the public teat and I'm tired of it. 

                  I'm tired of working hard every day and having half my income confiscated to give people too lazy to work free medical, free food, and free housing.  Enough already.

                  I propose a new movement to augment the other Make America whatevers and we have a MAKE AMERICA WORK AGAIN initiative. 

                  This brouhaha to protect farmers and hotels from a dragnet scooping up illegals does not indicate a problem with growing our food or making beds.  It's a glaring indictment of our entitlement culture that rewards people who refuse to contribute to their own welfare. 

                  What's the cure?  At the risk of sounding heartless, we need to eliminate ALL public welfare and transfer payments.  Yes, every single one, from Medicaid to food stamps to basic welfare.  

                  What is more heartless?  Rounding up hard working illegals who have picked tomatoes and cleaned toilets in hotels for many years, showing up to work every day, paying taxes and earning their keep?  Or kicking lazies off their government sugar daddy? I suggest rounding up hard working illegals is far more heartless and insane than demanding the rest of us support lazies.

                  Offering society an exit ramp from work is moral and ethical debauchery, and this currrent hand wringing about how to make sure chickens get butchered and hotel beds get made indicates a profound unwillingness to confront the real problem.  The real problem is not that we're going to have dirty laundry and starve to death.  The real problem is we've raised millions upon millions of people who think they can go through life without personal responsibility.

                  Enabling such freeloading isn't fair to the lazies because they never grow up and realize what responsibility means.  It isn't fair to those of us who work hard who see half our income confiscated through taxation to pay for the lazies.  And it isn't fair to entrepreneurs and business people who have to depend on non-neighbors to get things done.

                  In all this tension, I have yet to hear one person say "maybe if America quit paying people not to work, more Americans might suddenly find a work bone in their skeleton."  No, that's inconvenient.  It's considered unloving.

                  Let me tell you what's unloving:  encouraging irresponsibility and laziness, financed by people working their tails off to provide for their own families and then drug into the financial ditch trying to pay for families too lazy to work.  The Make America Great Again slogan hearkens back to a time when folks didn't have public assistance, when no safety nets meant everyone had to buck up to their obligations.  You can't be MAGA when you pay people unwilling to work.   

                  What about those unable to work?  That's where philanthropy comes in.  For those truly in need, plenty of us would contribute charitably, especially if taxes were cut so we could keep a little more of our hard earned money.  The fact that this discussion can't be had in the public square shows just how debauched our nation has become.  This should be front and center in policy worker discussions.  Not only does it not exist; it seems taboo to even suggest.

                  Why is it taboo to suggest MAKE AMERICA WORK AGAIN?