Politically Incorrect Welfare Rant

America needs to seriously reform the welfare system. There are sizeable portions of the population whose entire aspirations in life involve getting qualified for either General Relief or Social Security Insurance payments. They are content to take to their EBT coupons and subsist on whatever the government can tax the productive members of society for. Welfare should be a supplement. Welfare should be a government match against hours worked. The hours worked can be community service for all I care. But people need to contribute to their communities if they want the state to tax people with jobs to support them. Maybe I'm a bit bitter from riding through the train South Central LA every day, but the system is broken.

As long as I'm ranting, they need to modify the welfare system and deny payments to felons and their children. That would go a long way to dealing with the "baby daddy" syndrome of stupid girls letting themselves get knocked up by the most alpha, ghetto hood thugs they can find. All of a sudden the baby of a gangster won't be a free ticket to hundreds of dollars a month and a free place to live. Require a paternity test and a valid identify for the father of the child. The government needs to start holding the people that they support accountable for the choices those people make about how they live their lives. I'm sick and tired of seeing my tax dollars disappearing into the bottomless pit that is the ghetto.

Truth, unified thought and the clear, focused mind

Truth leads to unified thought, not mired by rumination and not distracted by aberrant wanderings of the ego driven mind. The mind will wander, seeking stimulation. Like a child throwing a tantrum, it can be ignored, and eventually it will give up on wanting what it wanted. Giving into the mind, like giving into the child, spoils it. Focused on sustaining what is needed and necessary, life and energy are stored, cherished and replenished. Ruminating on and chasing after wants, energy is exhausted and the mind becomes scattered, never satisfied, always seeking.

Energy and the essence of life are the greatest gifts to be treasured.