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Are We Schizo Or What?

January 6, 2010 at 2:21 pm

Notwithstanding our laws against entering the U.S. illegally, far too many of America’s leaders continue to tolerate the millions of people crossing our borders who are labeled “undocumented workers,” in an obvious effort to confuse their true status. For reasons that appear to be purely political, enforcement of our immigration laws is consistently ignored by just about everyone in authority, while at the same time they complain about the cost of government services that are provided to illegal immigrants, most notably health care, welfare and education.

Voting may be an absolute right of citizenship, but some people object to the idea that voters should be required to provide proper identification at the polls, which they claim is evidence of bias and prejudice against minorities. So, while we may have the right to vote, we shouldn’t have to prove that we are entitled to do so.

California universities require out of state students to pay higher tuition fees than residents, but accord those who are illegal immigrants the same status as residents. So, if a student from another state, say Colorado, Arizona, New York, etc., wishes to attend a California state financed university, their tuition fees will be substantially higher than the fees of those who are in the state illegally.

Tobacco is a legal product that is heavily taxed by the same government that historically subsidized tobacco farmers. Both the Federal and state governments tax cigarettes, ostensibly to offset health care costs incurred by smokers or to establish programs designed to discourage people from smoking. They then use the money for other purposes, often completely unrelated to tobacco use. If the product is so bad, why not just make it illegal? The obvious answer is that there is just too much money in it for the government and for our politicos. So, the product stays legal and is both heavily taxed and subsidized, health considerations aside, so long as it keeps feeding money into the tax coffers.

We put people in jail for ingesting something they like (as in drugs), while tolerating, even encouraging, the proliferation and aggressive marketing of prescription drugs throughout our culture, including the schools.

We tell our children that sex before marriage or at too early an age is a bad idea, while dispensing condoms to them at our schools.

The Supreme Court has held that abortion is a constitutional right; however, that right has produced a great deal of confusion in our society. While it is legal to abort a fetus at almost any stage of its development, including mere moments before the infant is born (“partial birth abortion”), it is homicide if the fetus is killed by, say, a gunshot or stab wound to the mother’s stomach. But, it is not murder for a mother to terminate her own pregnancy at the same stage of development for purely personal reasons. So, for some purposes, the law recognizes the fetus as a living person, for others it does not.

In many states, girls under the age of 18 must have their parents’ permission for a medical procedure, or to have their ears pierced, but they can get an abortion without parental consent or knowledge.

We try to teach young people that they should be good citizens and respect the law, while at the same time the airwaves are flooded with music, videos and TV programs that are vulgar, challenge authority, celebrate violence, preach hatred and generally pollutes their minds.

We are shocked by the steady stream of disclosures of the ethical and moral lapses of our business, political and religious leaders, while at the same time we tolerate hostile, anti-social and “in your face” behavior among our young people. Somehow, there is a disconnect between the “anything goes” mentality that pervades our society and the behavior of the adults who are supposed to be in charge. The old saying, “Monkey sees, monkey does,” seems to apply.

Americans treasure their right of privacy, yet for generations we have passed laws that intrude into the lives of people in a wide range of areas: limiting free speech, restricting the ownership of guns, intrusive tax regulation, making various consensual sexual acts illegal (even for married couples), and smoking, to name just a few.

Gambling is illegal or strictly regulated in various states, and while many people bemoan the fact that it can be addictive, many of those same governments operate and aggressively promote lotteries.

We constantly preach tolerance, but experience far too many shocking incidents of intolerance and prejudice, abuse, brutality and murder. “Do as I say, not as I do,” is not just some trite saying. It has become the accepted standard in our society.

Is it any wonder there are so many problems in America today when there is such contradictory, schizophrenic behavior in our society?

January 6, 2010 | Filed Under Abortion, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, cigarette tax, drug laws, drugs, ethics, fetus, gambling, privacy, tobacco, voting

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