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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
The Red Queen's Race
By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Feb 27 2008, 11:30 AM
The Red Queen lecturing Alice, by John Tenniel
Red Queen's raceThe Red Queen's race is an incident that appears in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and involves the Red Queen, a representation of a Queen in chess, and Alice constantly running but remaining in the same spot."Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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I’ll only address the Red Queen’s Race this one time. Amazingly, its example can be paralleled with countless life circumstances. Among them….jobs, economic growth, and taxes.
Here we are, well into the age of technology (yes, the information age – you must read this) finding that jobs here in the U.S. are disappearing and being outsourced to other countries. At the same time, the cost of living is going up at a steady pace and we have less purchasing power. The average citizen is running as fast as he can to stay in the same place he used to be.
Taxes….excessive government spending….tax the average citizen to near death….tax businesses until they leave the country. Then, find cheap labor where those products are now being made. Give us more to buy…then, we end up buying more. So, we need to work more and we become multi-income families. College students attend college longer and live home longer. Marriage and family (if any) has been put off until the thirties or later.
The government offers a multitude of social benefits, from our taxes, for those who are not as well off as those of us who are running as fast as we can to stay in the same place…. and most who are offered, take advantage of those benefits. Most immigrants using benefits, who are working, make low wages. This includes illegal immigrants.
There is talk of raising the minimum wage, which, in the end, will just cut jobs, raise prices, and make multi-income families have to work even harder when the cost of living goes up, yet again. Increasing services to the public…increasing taxes…expanding our government….that’s what makes the race continue….
Currently, the pitch from Obama, Clinton and McCain is in support of virtual fencing to protect the border. When, after the election, the dialogue reverts back to illegal immigrants being given amnesty, and if that becomes a reality, with more social services bestowed upon possibly 12 million illegal immigrants living in our country….
How much faster will we have to run to keep up then?
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