Bfgrn
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- Apr 4, 2009
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Ask yourself why they are hungry. It's because of a government that will not see the logic of growing the economy so that our children have chance at more than just a meal. Liberals play the emotional game all the time but never look at the truth. Taking money from producers and giving it to non producers does not accomplish anything. It's the old adage of trying to fill the shallow end of the pool from the deep end. We have to grow the economy and that means letting the private sector create jobs for those parents that can not feed their children. That entails getting government out of the way. The bottom line is that our economy is being sucked into the debt abyss by well intended spending from all sides with out looking at the outcomes. All the great intentions in the world will not feed these children. No country in the world that has tried to let government create wealth has ever succeeded. We do not want to be Greece or Spain. There is always room for charity and Americans give more charity than anyone in the world. Take the government out of the picture and Americans will step up and help. Neighbors will once again help each other, parents will be more willing to give up a few extra TV sets, mobile phones, cars and other things that many people today consider essentials even for the impoverished. They will use those savings to educate their children and provide a better future. Government today keeps our children impoverished because they make them feel like they can do nothing on their own. If they are minorities they are oppressed, if they are disabled they are incompetent, if they are uneducated they are beyond personal success and must be managed. That is not America. Poverty can and must be resolved by the spirit of our citizens not the elitist attitudes of those who think we can not manage by ourself. It is not by accident that the more someone succeeds the more they tend to vote. They have skin in the game and want to protect it. Others become dependent, have no skin in the game so they let the government control them with emotional and fear tactics. Almost 50% of Americans pay no federal income tax and as such have no skin in the game. It's time to give them jobs not welfare, respect not food stamps, opportunity not minimum existence. It's time to let them be the great Americans that everyone knows they can be. We can and will "build it ourself" but along the way we will be the charitable nation that sets us apart from the rest of the world but charity can not be mandated it must be given freely.
This is dangerous social engineering propaganda. You right wingers are an ignorant bunch of social Darwinists. Your disdain and dismissal of fellow Americans who are working very hard to make ends meet makes me want to vomit.
America has a very minimal social safety net. We tried a charity only society...it FAILED.
The only social program that is facing a funding problem is Medicare, the most essential social program. The people it helps are not 'lazy', they have an affliction that cannot be reversed. Maybe when people retire, instead of living out their remaining years with dignity and independence, we can hand them a fucking CUP, so they can roam the streets begging...