The wealth of a nation is healthy and educated citizens

Health carries a myriad of perceptions.  For SOME, economic health is more valuable than everything else because it is the access point by which we gain the rest.  If the behavior of the masses is a signal of righteous direction, then SOME are correct.

Money is power and happiness and health and the door by which all of these things can be accessed. Yet, we all know miserable rich folk.  In this world of recession and depression created by inflation and stagnant wages, intervention becomes vital.

Welfare has become America's great equalizer designed to pull the head of America's poor out of the water so they will not drown, and to prop up and dependent industries that lose out when poor people can't catch a breath.  Sure we can increase wages, but prices will continue to do what prices continue to do.  Will it takes a couple of decades to change the minimum wage again?  We simply have to accept that saving more and  spending less is the only way to force inflation to slow down a bit.

Since that is hardly the American way, we intervene with welfare of many varieties.  Poor people welfare is America's methodology for forcibly balancing our economy as needed.  It is inspired by the Native Americans who  had the wisdom to realize that the earth belongs to all of us.  When we allow some of us to take it hostage for gain, we are forced to redistribute its bounty for the greater good of both humanity and industry.

Every human being is individually responsible for their lives and destiny.  Collectively we come together for things that no person can do alone (firefighting, public schools, military, etc.).  For some reason, reasonable collectivism (aka socialism) gets lost into a confused war between individual responsibility and  the power of unity and agreement.  No man cares to be the provider for another capable human being.

Or do we?

Do we make sure our kids are healthy and educated or do we create remediation programs and systems to constantly provide for people who keep falling through the cracks?  If our fingers were locked more tightly around a unified belief, there would be less cracks.  Our current unified message is called the American Dream and it is an indirect message of self reliance. As a result we are much better at caring for ourselves than at  realizing that the chain of humanity is only as strong as its weakest link.

No person should ever have to worry about the failures of another lazy man, but we do become responsible for the impact to society when his section of the chain breaks.  Government is costly in America because it spends most of its energy cleaning the messes caused by growing individualism.  The only thing cheaper than doing something about poverty (outside of doing nothing) is doing something better.

The true wealth of a nation is healthy and educated citizens.  Much like the guilt of slavery, America realizes that it has failed so many, so we collectively spend to remedy our failures.  When our unified belief moves us to create a comprehensive program for true health, than we can finally send our costly guilt there as well.

The wealth of a nation is healthy and educated citizens.

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