Safety Net

I work with Celebrate Recovery, a Christ centered 12 step group. We learn that one has to hit bottom before they turn around and start their recovery. Hitting bottom can be a painful thing. That is why our government has created safety nets to keep people from catastrophic situations. The problem is our government does not know where it should stop. It cushions falls to the point that we do not feel the need to turn our lives around. Health care, housing, food, etc. our government does not want to see anyone suffer, so they make more and more safety nets. The problem with the most well intentioned programs is it has allowed people to fling themselves down, down, down, from safety net to safety net without hitting bottom and without creating the internal need to turn themselves around. And, as people fling themselves down from net to net, congress is at the bottom, making more nets.