Don't Let Government Drive Your Car

If you do something for someone long enough they will soon forget how to do it for themselves. I notice this when we drive certain places. If I am not the one driving chances are I will not pay much attention to how got there or how to get back home. I just coast along in the passenger seat enjoying the scenery, taking it all in, but not really noticing street names or landmarks. I am just chilling out. I am not responsible, the driver is. I am just along for the ride.

Already we have surrendered many of our responsibilities to a government that is more than willing to hop in the driver's seat. The educational system is an example of just one. A lot of parents leave it up to the school system to discipline and train their children. Schools are not equipped to provide the time and attention a child needs. These teachers do the best they can. The parent's irresponsible behavior not only impacts their own children but impacts the class in which the student is a part of. We keep pouring money into this system and programs thinking that somehow that will help, but really it is the families inability or refusal to get involved that is at the root of the problem. They are not made to take responsibility and maybe the kid gets some special label or diagnosis. Then they really have an excuse, a medical one at that, to let the experts handle little Johnny. Parents are responsible for disciplining and training their children. It effects society as a whole when they do not. It tends to travel through the generations as well. Grandpa did time, daddy did time and now little Johnny just got picked up for shoplifting. Could there be something to teaching some boundaries and limitations? It isn't the school's responsibility. It starts at home.


Proverbs 22:6:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.


I don't want to be along for the ride. I want to drive my own car. I want the American dream. I want that sense of accomplishment that I have when a job is well done. I want that for my children. I would prefer we equip people and not do it for them. At the end of the day how can you look at yourself in the mirror knowing that you have given the government that much power and control in something as personal as your family or your finances?

For those of you that are old enough to remember think about the former USSR. Did those people look happy? Their families fell apart. Poverty was and is still rampant. The divorce rate was and is still huge. The orphanages over there are full of abandoned children even today. The crime rate was and still is unbelievable. The devastation to families that a communist society caused will continue for generations. That is BIG government. Take away a sense of accomplishment, make everyone equal (no matter how hard they work) and the very minimum they need to exist. Is that the answer? Well, you saw the experiment over there. How did it work out?

Do you like your freedom? Did we learn any lessons from communist Russia? Big government does not solve things.

Drive your own car. Pay attention to where you are going and how to get home.

God bless.