Issue 1

Have you seen the movie Enemy of the State with Will Smith & Gene Hackman? Great Movie! Gotta go see that one. The main character is targeted by federal agents. Will Smith has some stolen property planted on him by some very bad guys. That's where my title comes from. It applies in this way.

There are some in our governmental system with a every strange mentality. Our economy is currently undergoing a correction, many people are being let go from jobs some are being outsourced to other nations that can do the job at lower cost. And as we look for solutions to this crisis. We as a country seem to be rehashing old ideas instead of looking for new ideas to solve new problems.

This crisis can be an opportunity in some circumstances, but some solutions, such as decreasing the unemployment ranks by robbing Peter to pay Paul. only increases the turmoil and strife get between all political parties. But what about the class of peoples who have never been a part of the workforce.

The invisible men and women who don't think they can make a living in this society or have a career and not a job. They are the true untapped precious metals in a world of fool's gold. IMHO
Speaking as a fairly young, African American woman on a limited disability income. I can relate to the hopeless feelings one experiences when they cannot make a perchase that is needed or is looked on as uneducated because of the balance of their bank accounts.

This strange mentality I'm speaking of is known to me as the Welfare Mentality at least my definition of it. It is commonly associated with lower people in the income levels who have lost hope and depend on the government to support them for the rest of their natural born lives.

Some see this syndrome as something confined to the African American community, but the stats don't bear this to be true. Government Stats But even if this were true, why would one want a whole segment of the US population to be dependant on a source of income that is unstable at best? Don't answer that question, you might incriminate yourself.

But back to my point. This Welfare State Mentality is more wide spread than just being hopelessly dependant on a governmental income. I see it as being akin to someone who expects, as Pharoah of old did, people to make bricks of straw and mud without straw or mud or the tools necessary to do this. I'm thinking of people who are giving a hand up into a mud pit and then saying if you don't work you don't eat.

This is a very subtle disorder. The Welfare State Mentality as I see it is a disorder of those in the higher income levels of all nationalities who want a slave labor force and don't realize they do. Before I go on let me stat that I lean towards the Republican Party in my political affiliations but I'm a true Independant at heart in my home state.

My critique is for those who I respect the most, those in that same Republician Party. Be forewarned don't exact much work from those who don't have the tools to do the job. So here's a wake up call. Don't tie up our economy. Give people hope and vocational training so they can have the skills to be a valuable part of our economy.

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