When US President Lyndon Johnson inaugurated “Great Society” entitlement programs in the 1960s, wiser men and women warned that such programs would empower bureaucracies, waste vast sums of money, create generations of dependency and bankrupt the Treasury. Unfortunately, Americans took the bait and now we struggle in the snare.
Hugo Chavez promised Venezuelans a socialist paradise. People bought it, without pausing to realize that evil methods rarely result in good ends. Venezuelans now struggle in the snare. It’s always more difficult to get out of it than to avoid it in the first place.
This is proof of the value of core principles that are rooted in what’s right, not necessarily what’s popular at the moment. If you don’t have core principles, or if you toss them because you can’t take the heat, you may pay an awful price down the road. My advice? Do the right thing now or you will inevitably regret your failure later. How many times does this have to be stated before its wisdom sinks in?
What an awful price many people pay for failing to do the right thing at a critical moment, even when they knew what the right thing was! Prisons are full of people who did wrong when they knew better. Perhaps it sounds corny but it’s still true: It is never wrong to do what is right and never right to do what is wrong. I don’t know about you, but I would rather fail at doing the right thing than succeed at doing the wrong thing.
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