Paul Begala ran a piece on CNN site with another typical attack on Sara Palin. Now I am not going to defend Mrs. Palin here. I am not even a huge fan of her; I am just amazed how liberals wouldn't let go a single word by the woman without making fun of her and trying to paint a decent human being and the mother of five into a carton character.
The thing I would like to talk about is the issue of hard working. Mr. Begala is trying to place hard working into a long list of liberal values. Although I was tempted to write an immediate response to this rather amusing statement, I could not do so without first laughing for quite some time. Paul Begala is a skillful political consultant and a commentator; he can make up a case that the Sun shows from the West in the morning (and maybe it is in a political sense) and that it's good to NOT read Fox News site before going to bed at night (this could be true as well as one would learn too many disturbing things). But hard labor is not a liberal thing. It simply ain't and never was.
Now don't get me wrong. Many liberals themselves - and I assume Mr. Begala is one of them - are very hard-working people. I will leave alone the substance and the value of their work - that's a topic of a separate article. They may be working hard; they just never PROMOTE hard work. They can convulsively talk ad nauseum about feminism, the rights of sex minorities, social justice, tax increase for "rich" (that would be everyone who is making a decent living) and their favorite topic - protecting the underdog in all areas of life in our society. And at some point in history every single one of these issues even made sense. I've already written about the fact that a few generations back liberals used to carry a good case of liberty. Not anymore; they are just stuck back in history. At this point, America, with all the usual calamities of a real human society is still one of the best democracies on the planet.. Yes, we had to implement the Patriot Act. And we have to fight terrorism and crime, inasmuch as Mr. Begala's types are trying to protect many of the perpetrators as pure at heart and just being provoked by the system. So the liberals more or less successfully could claim the aforementioned issues like something they are always arguing for. Inside the boundaries of servicing (or rather, dis-servicing) the underdog they are at their own turf. But the hard work? The liberals always talk about GRANTING benefits to all possibly imaginable "underprivileged". More social benefits but no community service for them. Longer unemployment coverage but no classes to teach marketable skills. Better medical insurance for people who never worked. More food stamps without working for them in some shape or form. More free rides. More protection. But never more work.
Yes, our society has to provide help to underprivileged and less fortunate. That's why donations and volunteering always were and still are so popular in America. We need to help people get back on their feet. We need to provide help for the disabled. We have to keep Medicare and Social Security up and running. We must care for people in need. But we could not afford any more to encourage reliance on government or somebody else. I realize most liberals have a master degree or better. Did they forget to take Economics 101? If we constantly take from some sources, eventually we will suck the wells dry. And we are already quite close to this point. Somebody has to produce things and make money if they are to be given away to the needy. So, with the obvious exception of disabled and elderly, people with no means have to be taught how to fish and encouraged to go fishing rather than just permanently be given the fish and made to expect it for granted. Even Jesus did not do this on a daily basis.
Mr. Begala has got to be kidding. Hard working is not a liberal slogan. Maybe he was simply trying to make a joke. In this case he succeeded all right.
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