HR-1388

Has anyone been paying attention?

I'm told that the "G.I.V.E. Act" has passed Congress, requiring American citizens to serve in federally-controlled public-service organizations. This is the logical progression of a governmental philosophy which I've been denouncing for many years: the lie that, if the central government isn't meeting human needs, then human needs aren't being met at all. The very pretense that this new government service network is necessary at all, is the same thing as claiming that the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, World Vision, Feed The Children, Doctors Without Borders, and other independent humanitarian agencies haven't been doing anything all these decades.

Am I making myself clear enough? Even without bringing hysterical charges of totalitarian tyranny, it should be enough for you to know that I am right when I say that the justification for HR-1388 is a lie. Not a mistake, not a difference of opinion: an intentional falsehood, an attempt by government to make us believe things which government figures themselves know to be untrue. Even if it is only a limited group of persons who are called on to render government service under HR-1388, for those who are affected by the legislation, it remains a piece of indoctrination in favor of government being the source of all humanitarian provisions. One more intentional step in the direction of regarding private charity as redundant and useless.

Independent charities have IN ACTUAL FACT accomplished great things in America's history; and the incremental "change" to federal control of all charity adds nothing good. The one and only thing the "G.I.V.E. Act" adds to the field of charitable activity...is progress toward a federal monopoly in decision-making. Once the same government supremacy spreads far enough, we will no longer be allowed to use OUR judgment about what things people need. When attempting to help our neighbors, we will have to let the government tell us what we are allowed to do for them and give to them. So if some bureaucrat is too stupid to understand a particular need, then it's just too bad for the persons in need--the bureaucrat will insist on distributing air conditioners in Alaska in winter, or providing ground beef to feed our horses.

Can anybody NOT see this?

Anybody who doesn't see it, isn't looking, or does not yet know where to look...and certainly never lived in the Soviet Union.

If Americans can get their act together this November and gain ground against the Government-Is-All philosophy, it will not be even nearly enough just to throw out some of the power-drunk traitors currently in Congress. We must, we absolutely MUST, put the pressure on, and KEEP the pressure on, to repeal and reject this dictatorial centralizing of all humanitarian activity.