The Do-gooder and the Working Man
Or
Hang on to Your Bureaucrat
Bureaucrat:
Working Man:
Give me some of your money.
What for?
It is for your protection.
And, what if I refuse protection?
You can’t refuse my protection. It is the law. You have to be protected.
But!
Protecting you is my job, and if you will not let me do my job I will not let you work at all. Oh, and if you insist on working I will treat you as a criminal.
So, because I work I have to give you some of my money. Please explain to me a little more as to why I should pay.
You must cooperate by paying because it is hard to get money from people who are not working when they don’t have enough income. In fact, much of the money I get from you I am going to give to them – they need it and you have got it.
What gave you the right to take my money and give it to them?
As the majority of voters, they gave me the right to take your money. They pay me to do my job. The idea goes way back for generations. This system was set up before you were even born. To include all working people in a system that both cares for others and that is to continue forever and ever was the main idea. That you are part of this system is a given and you should want it to continue forever too; because, when you no longer work it will be your turn to pay me a portion of the money I give to you from the money I collect from people still working.
So you get paid no matter what – secure in your job of taking money from working people and giving it to others to do what they please with it!
That is the way things are done. It has been working that way for a long time and we see no reason to change it.
Who is ‘We’?
‘We’ are the ones with the power. We have the power to take from those who ‘have’ and give it to those who ‘have not’. Those that ‘have’ shouldn’t be bothered by the pittance we take from them. Those that ‘have not’ adore us and have come to depend on us to satisfy their needs. We are satisfied doing good work for whoever needs our help.
What if I come to need your help?
Just ask. We always want to do more for people. Maybe we can work with you in setting up a program to help you get what you need; but, what would help you most is if there were a lot of other people with the same needs as yours that you could organize. We do our very best attending to groups of people expressing the same needs: that is what makes you special and we tend to show favor to special interest groups with special needs. In fact our favorite thing to do is help and the more we can help the better it is for us – it is our job security. Helping is its own reward too – it makes us feel good – like we are accomplishing something.
So let me see if I have this right. Your job is to take my money and give it to someone else who has a greater need of it than I do. It is your job to decide who is the neediest and what needs to satisfy; and you do your job using a formula based on who asks the loudest. You can do this because you work for special groups (that like whining babies can’t satisfy their own needs) interested in having you supply them with what they need. They, in turn, become dependent on you for their supply (like children refusing to grow up or like addicts) and you, in turn, become dependent on them for the power they grant you to do your work (like drug dealers) and the appreciation they give you (the money) for your job well done. And through all this you see your job as one of providing protection: protecting non-workers now and protecting present-workers in the future. And through all this you see that by doing your job you are protecting the very system itself and all the people in it forever and ever.
Yes! You’ve got it! And do you know what else? The system just keeps growing to include all people because all people are equal. No person should be different than anybody else in having more or less. If it weren’t for environmental factors such as genetics, or race, or creed, or nationality, or lack of education, or poor parenting or poverty in general we wouldn’t have any of the problems we face as people inhabiting this planet. As you can see, something is not right and it is our job to fix it. The fix is in the system and it has been described with names like ‘social security’ and ‘social justice’. Everybody should have what we have got because they are people just like us. We all belong in the system that helps everybody out. It is really simple – people inside the system are good and people outside the system are bad. That is it!
Maury Garvey – apennyformythought.com
Tags: Bureaucrats, social justice
