Long, long ago, I remember my mom telling me all kinds of things to do that she thought would be for my good.
“Put your coat on, otherwise you’re gonna get sick.”
“Take your shoes off. I don’t want mud in the house.”
“If you’re not home by ten, and I have to come looking for you, you’re gonna be sorry.”
There were times I thought I knew more than she did about a given situation and when that occurred, she reinforced what she thought was good for me with an old-fashioned butt whoopin’ with a board.
Eventually, I got my mind right and acknowledged that she had my best interest in mind after all.
Today, though, things have taken a seriously hard “Left” hand turn, as many moms—and dads, for that matter—have been slowly erased by the government from doing what she is supposed to do, to raise her children right.
And now we have a whole generation (or two or three) that believes that instead of going to mom for answers, it runs to the government to solve its everyday issues.
In other words, we have a Mommy Government on our hands and too many, including many mothers, seem good with that.
“Who is going to pay me $15 an hour to flip burgers at Mickey D’s, Mommy Government?”
“Who is going rebuild my tattoo shop, after the tornado blew through town, and I didn’t think I needed insurance for such a thing, even though I live right in the middle of Tornado Alley, Mommy Government?”
Higher up on the corporate food chain, there is heard, “Hey, let us spend your money, rather than our own, Mommy Government!”
Huge corporations demand government bail-outs to stay afloat during seeming crises, while CEOs continue to receive their six-digit bonus checks and Mommy Government bears the burden.
“We’re all in this together,” says Mommy Government, as trillions of dollars are printed and doled out, knowing that future generations are going to suffer.
“So, if you don’t fork it over, then we will have to fold and we just can’t have that, can we, Mommy?”
Doesn’t anyone plan ahead, like our moms told us to, when we were growing up?
How is it that so many people have decided that living in a Mommy State is so much better than simply growing up and acting like responsible adults?
Have such individuals become so stupefied to believe that Mommy Government is the ultimate source for all their problems, as well as their successes?
Do they not realize that by turning over their lives, if not livelihoods, to Big Mommy, that they are asking for a surrogate that is less efficient, more expensive, and by-far more chaotic than anything they could have learned from dear, old mom?
Perhaps it is because certain people belong to parents that are as big of dupes or dopes as they are now and they cannot tell their right hand from their left foot.
Whatever the case, this whole Mommy State is destined to fail, just like it has in the past where other countries substituted their moms (and dads) for the Big Mommy State.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6) is the parent’s responsibility, not the government’s!
Mommy States are for society’s where moms and dads have failed, the family is broken, and now the children have become orphans of those who could not care less about them, except to make them slaves.
And enslaved America has become!
As a result, a growing number of Americans are cold, calloused, uncaring, ungodly, unloving, living under bridges or on the very street’s that they use for bathrooms, while the government mommies burden those who are responsible to work harder, longer, and for less, so that Mommy Government can further neglect the neglected, and line Mommy’s pockets in the process.
It is absolutely shameful and most likely beyond repair.
Little Johnny and Suzie have now grown accustomed to Mommy Government taking care of them, from cradle to grave.
And now that Marxist-Socialist dictators, acting as governors and mayors, have taken the opportunity of a manufactured “pandemic,” and a “conservative” elite that is all too willing to go along with charade, to set a precedent, whereby little Johnny and Susie are set to become the next generation’s social Mommies.
Perhaps this is another reason my mom was insistent that I comply with what she knew was good for me.
Because she knew that if I did not, and she failed to show me the light, so to speak (even if it took the dreaded board), then it would not be long until someone acting in her place would come along and show me things that were the polar opposite of what was good for me—and it mortified her.
Government has its role to play in any society, don’t get me wrong.
But, replacing parents and making their children subjects of the state is not one of them, even though a growing number of parents AND children have become comfy in relinquishing their responsibility and subjecting themselves to the Mommy State.
