Do It For Me!

This is sad, but also sadly believable. A woman's car comes to an unexpected halt on the railroad tracks, and a train is bearing down on her. What would you do? I'd be out the door and setting a new land speed record for people with arthritic knees and unstable ankles. What did she do? She called 911, then sat there waiting to be helped. Alas, the train got there first, and she died.

Yet another reason I'm so down on both socialism and religion. What happens when you abandon individual responsibility and take comfort in the fact that no matter what happens, some entity (natural or supernatural) will be there to take care of you?

You wind up seeing your tax dollars go to bail out Wall Street fatcats and powerful Detroit unions. You wind up having your freedoms stripped away, layer by layer, in the name of public safety or "diversity". You wind up having parents kill their children by insisting that praying over them (or not getting them vaccinated) is superior to scientifically based medical care.

And, in this case, you wind up expecting the government to come save you as a train is coming straight at you. This is truly the model citizen for the new United Socialist States of America (USSA).