Unions and government have sold out workers Part II

I recently have written two pieces very critical of unions. I want to delve a little into why I am so critical. I am not some raving anti-union bigot. I am simply a free market capitalist. I believe this is very important to our future. I don't believe we can ever go back to a time when the free market totally rules in America, but I believe we need to go back in that direction.

We have a situation in our country that is quickly becoming a crisis. Too many citizens do not have a hunger. I don't mean that in a food and nutrition sense, I say this in a sense of drive. A large majority of us do not have to wonder where our next meal will come from or where to rent payment will come from. We have a good life and we are satisfied. Our children have developed a sense of entitlement. I know this well because my kids seem to have this sense of entitlement.

No entities have had more to do with our sense of entitlement than the Federal government, unions and primary and secondary schools. Competing in the world seems to be a secondary concern to these entities. Unfortunately competing is the primary concern of the rest of the world. The people of India, China, Indonesia are ready and anxious to compete.

A user on Youtube.com has a video called 'Shift Happens'. This video shows a lot of information that should get every one's mind looking in the right direction. On the other hand we have politicians running for Santa Claus and making sure young people never have to compete. Just look at this story from Reuters where Hillary Claus want to give every child a $5000 bank account for college, just for being born. This is nothing short of obscene pandering!!

I am a computer developer. Every day I see so many areas that I need to learn or get better at. I work in an exciting world, but I know as much as anyone that I cannot afford to get behind. My hope is that everyone will see that world and act accordingly. As the people overseas are getting better and better, our people are getting fatter and lazier (yes I include myself in this group). Our founding fathers would be appalled if they saw the work ethic our young display. My fear is they would call for a new Constitutional Congress.

What are my recommendations? Unions and interest groups focus on groups. We must change our focus. Our individual identity is much more important than our group. Only through pursuing our individual excellence can we come back to the prominence our country deserves, and each of us can achieve. Group focus will continue to drive us behind our competition in the world.

Along with our desire to focus on groups, we seem to have a desire for guarantees. We value security rather than risk. Of course risk is scary, but must be explored. The more we demand guaranteed outcomes, the more we will continue to lose. We can only achieve true freedom, through risk. To get security we must give up elements of our freedom. We do this by ceding our economic freedom in exchange for government redistribution of resources.

The most damaging thing the desire for security does is take away our edge. There is a decreasing desire to incur risk, because we don't have to. Society is taking care of us. This takes away our very survival skills. To young people who have never had to excel to get ahead, this is cruel. It takes away the feeling of accomplishing something that is truly difficult. Don't you remember being in school, thinking you could never get a math problem? We all used to have that experience. When you finally figured it out, wow!! what a feeling!!! Don't take that away from our children. Encourage them to strive for true inginuity. Their role models should be Bill Gates, not Paris Hilton. That is my thought anyway.