Very far out of touch on this one bhodi. You sound like you're saying people wish to live in poverty, and that poverty only exists in this country because people choose to live that way. In a society like ours, we must be smart enough to realise that all of our standards are not going to apply equally. There are a multitude of health issues, mental health issues, and cultural/socieoeconomic issues that place many on a basement floor looking up at the poverty level. What then do we do with these people? Kill them? Watch them starve? Watch their children starve? Of course our system must be able to weed out those who abuse it, but we can't even do that with govenrment corruption. We have no problem helping millions around the world where we have business or political interests involved, but you let an american citizen need help and its all hell broke loose from the right!
I am not against helping people. I am against socialism and marxists.
The Government is here to serve the people, not to serve itself. The fact remains that there are people who through mental or physical defect will always need some sort of assistance from the rest of us. That is our duty to provide such assistance. There are also those that choose not to participate in the American Dream. It is not based on color, but instead on the the willingness of the person to effect change in their life. Whether you are born a dirt poor farmer's kid or a dirt poor ghetto kid means nothing. There is ALWAYS oppurtunity for those that wish to go above and beyond to better themselves.
It is when Socialists and Marxists preach their ideology of people relying on the government to take care of them that you get the problem that we have now. People become complacent with receiving government handouts. So much so, that entire generations of people choose to know nothing more. That is the fault of the socialists and marxists in this country. They have created a population that is reliant on government handouts.
Instead, look at social conservatives. These people believe in the simple fact that the Government exists to protect the Constitution and protect us from enemies foreign and domestic. They also believe that a person has every right to keep most of what they earn instead of giving it to those that choose not to work. That is not saying there should be no goverment aid programs, just that that aid be administered properly and justly.
In the end, I think our Government has failed us in protecting us from enemies within. Socialists and Marxists will bring about the downfall of this country if they continue to grow unabated.
