this is a serious question, please only reply with serious comments.
what specifically do liberals want the US to become?
Tell us exactly what you want changed, and why.
Seriously?
Liberals want a country that provides a level playing field for all people regardless of race, sex, sexuality or social class
Liberals want to help those who need helping
So do Conservatives.
Conservatives want to do those things a different way other than the Federal Government - like the States should run the welfare programs and they should be run to help them out of poverty. Not run the way it is set up now that keeps them in poverty.
States have historically left 'people' out in the cold. The federal government has stepped in because of the neglect of states
That was the propaganda sold to the people in order the get the programs and for the Government to run them.
And now has become riddled with fraud, corruption and abuse.
The State are able to control that better.
American Poverty Pre-Welfare State Intellectual Takeout ITO
America’s first settlers and Founders were certainly not oblivious to the problems of poverty, nor were they callous in their treatment of it. Yet they explicitly urged its alleviation by means other than the federal government. This ideology was concisely expressed by James Madison, who
declared that "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." And Ben Franklin once
stated, "the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
Giving the poor a hand up rather than a hand out continued beyond the Founding era through a variety of private organizations and charities known as
mutual aid societies. After visiting America in the early 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville made note of this phenomenon when he
wrote, "Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations. ... Wherever, at the head of some new undertaking, you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association."
America’s first settlers and Founders were certainly not oblivious to the problems of poverty, nor were they callous in their treatment of it. Yet they explicitly urged its alleviation by means other than the federal government. This ideology was concisely expressed by James Madison, who
declared that "Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government." And Ben Franklin once
stated, "the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society officially ushered in the modern welfare state with his
declared war on poverty. Although this move did not eliminate private charity, it gradually created a national mentality that government should be counted on to provide for the poor, elderly, and disabled. As a result, dependence and spending on government relief has
skyrocketed in recent decades.
Today, with America's
national debt increasing at a rapid rate, many wonder how the government can continue to maintain the many welfare programs it has established. Others outright question whether or not the government's approach to welfare is effective and efficient at alleviating poverty at all.
No one since the beginning of this country has died in large numbers of poverty and starvation like many other big government controlled countries have had.
