You Deserve

Commercials often feature the "you deserve" theme.  "You deserve nice hair".  "You deserve the best"  Etc. Etc. Ad infinitim.  And oh so wrong. 

Here is what you deserve.  The founding principles of our nation, bought with the blood of hundreds of thousands for over 200 years and written up in the Constitution.  Read it sometime, with the intent not to get through in a few minutes or to see what you want to see but rather to understand what the founding fathers, in their great wisdom, intended.  A few hints to start you off:  You deserve to be protected from foreign military enemies by the Armed Forces acting through the Federal Government.  You deserve to be protected from domestic enemies by the police forces acting through State and local governments.  You deserve the protections and rights granted by the Constitution as amended by the Bill of Rights.

What you earn through your work by physical, mental, or spiritual means that inspires others to pay an agreed upon wage, or to otherwise voluntarily fund you, is also deserved.  No, you do not deserve to make the same as someone else just because they have different colored skin or a different set of sex organs.  Your value, and thus your pay, should reflect how much value you add or seem to add or are expected to add after training to the entity that employs you.

You deserve a reasonably clean, healthy but certainly not pristine environment.  Just as you pollute simply by breathing, so others pollute when they make the electricity that allows your gadgets to bring these inspired and insightful words of wisdom to enlighten you, and to disabuse you of feeling like somehow the world owes you anything.  So no, you cannot expect to escape all pollution.  Building and keeping your house up also pollutes, as do most of the activities that you do.  Deal with it.  But to a certain extent, you should have clean leavings from the others that use the environment. 

And that, people of the United States, is all.  You do not deserve to be allowed to take from others using big government as your bully.  You do not deserve anything just because you are alive.

Low - life "you deserve" commercials (aka "lawyers").  No, you do not deserve to make megabucks off of a medical problem unless there was actual malpractice.  These windbags have convinced a lot of weak minded fools that they "deserve" something for nothing, and it is hurting our nation.  If you are prescribed a drug that the company who made it according to good practices and brought it to market according to the big government rules that later on hurts you, you do not deserve anything.  Vote in smarter people to make better rules if it bothers you, instead of wasting your vote voting for someone because they are charismatic or have a particular skin color or gender or other traits that mean nothing on how well they will do their job.  There are provisos, which I hinted at:  If the company hid any test results, or saw anything that would have warned them that their product was not safe, than the owners of said company should be forced to pay those they cheated big time.  Similarly, if the doctor who prescribed the drug had no knowledge of the issues that the company hid, than he or she is guiltless and, again, you deserve nothing.  Sorry, but sometimes in life you draw the short straw and it is game over and no one is at fault, except for Mom Nature.  Try suing her.

Stupid "you deserve" commercials (aka products).  I guess trying to get people feeling good about a product (let us pick on shampoos since there are so many adds for them) is the job of the lying sleazebags who make ridiculous commercials that have some nitwit fake blond with more silicon than brains proclaiming that you deserve beautiful hair.  This is not good for the self image of those who will never have a model quality hair, or skin, or whatever.  It also allows people to be duped by the sellers.  Resist the urge to believe that somehow you, a person who leads a normal life, can have the same looks as someone who has people funding this or her physical attributes through paying to see them in movies, or pretending to sing something worth listening to, or showing off cloths.  Accept that your qualities are important and good and worthy and stop chasing the false claims of these products.

That covers that.  Now go and do something good!