A Personal Look at Conservatism: Part One

A Personal Look at Conservatism: Part One
(Poverty and Crime)


It occurs to me that poverty may play a small role in motivating a criminal to commit a given crime. If a man needs food he may find himself motivated to steal some bread. Or so the old philosophy goes.

I believe that if a man needs food he should find a way to earn the food or money to buy the food. Plain and simple. We as a society should not reward those who do
nothing with their lives with simple pleasures (I usually find eating rather pleasurable).

Now we take this a step further. A man finds himself hungry… this time he just simply steals money. This leads me to wonder why not just pilfer a loaf of bread if you are already going to steal in the first place? But this is more often the case than somebody who would rather steal food straight away.

So I come to my personal outlook on this crime. Unlike the American justice system I find stealing to be a sordid affair. The person doing the act is even more repulsive. So unlike the American justice system I would rather let the person bust rocks till their hands bleed day in and day out (you know… like the good old days). Obviously the crime proves a lack of willingness to work. Henceforth the punishments involving work.

Yet what if the criminal just simply needs his next fix of crack? Well these people I do feel need some medical attention. But they still need a severe punishment equal to that of a person stealing for food. The motivation should have nothing to do with the punishment of the crime (no insanity pleas in my system).

What motivator does the left in this country fall back on when a criminal is caught stealing? Poverty.

So now to take a look at the poor.

Most of the world lives either right above or just below the “poverty line”. For each individual this line is drawn somewhere on an imagined chart. And for each individual this imaginary line happens to be somewhere different from that of the next individual. Rarely do you get two people to agree on just where the line between poverty and wealth should be drawn. But at any rate I digress…

Whatever the case the individual who preserves himself to be drifting around this equator will do one of two things… accept or reject. Those who accept this condition will also do one of two things… learn to live within their means or blame the “rich” for their failures. On the other hand the ones who reject this proposed line will also do one of two things… take full advantage of “hand outs” or persevere and work their way toward personal wealth.
For the last of those four given hypothesizes we are given the conservative way of going about this dilemma. And well I guess the first could be somewhat conservative, but I don’t too many people that are willing accept the fact that they are “impoverished”.

Those who use the “rich guy” excuse for their way of coping often seem to make up the list of criminals who happen to also use the “poverty” excuse. After all… excuses are like butt holes for jailbirds. Yet I digress again…

Now a look at how poverty has lent itself to our cultural woes.

Too often in this country we see black people getting sympathy from the news because of their “unique circumstances”. You don’t see it so much with other minorities (or at least not where I live). Yet here we have an entire race of people dubbed “poor” by a predominantly white news media… seems kinda racist to me (the news media usually does this for classic liberal reasons… to feel good about themselves). I thought we had come much farter as a country… you know… looking past the color of a person’s skin. After all, didn’t Obama win? (rhetorical question)

I’d like to just state that if more black people live in poverty in this country than why don’t we try and break that cycle? By doing stuff not to keep them locked in the bottom rungs of society (cut government programs that are designed to keep poor people in poverty) we could probably end most of the poverty in this country. But we would also have to accept the fact that some of those now empowered people might vote republican. Just a thought.

But what about all the other poor people in America that just happen not to be black? Well we don’t care about them… no… just repeating the media’s take on that. I and most other conservatives do care about the poor in this country. And as for me, I’d rather see government removed from the list of obstacles these people have to face. It just makes sense that if the tyrannical governmental programs we have had for fifty some years have not helped yet, they probably never will. And it stands to reason that more of the same will not change a single thing for those in poverty (except maybe to add one more link to the chains that keep them there).

If we do in fact need change in this country… we need a change from the overpowering government our ancestors have made for us. No, I’m not talking secession. We need less of what we have and more of what we all so desperately want, freedom. We do not need a new leader with old ideas (just polished with a smile). We do not need hope in something that Obama cannot give us. We need our government to work in the manner that our founding fathers designed it.

Yet for all this rambling about poverty and crime I have been doing over the course of the last two pages… I keep getting reminded of a truly conservative saying. “If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish he will eat for a lifetime.”

Don’t get me wrong… the “education” we have in this country is laughable. I simply meant that we have a country in which the government is passing out “fish” to the blind and dumb (blind to their own potential and too dumb to figure out just what to make of themselves).

But that is just a random rambling from the uneducated (not through collage yet) mind of the Grand Fubba (pronounced: ph-oo-ba).