Everyone who argues these issues -- including you, amazingly enough! -- seems to have selective memory or fails to look to the years the States existed before 1965's Great Society, the 1930's New Deal, the 1914 Tax Act that created the IRS, etc.
Were millions of Americans "dying in the streets" as Christine has luridly described? No, they were not. Americans back then were, perhaps, a hardier sort, had more "common sense" and did not need a government to coddle them or tell them what to think. Even many of the poor believed they too could be rich -- at least "rich" compared to their European brethren.
Does an American really need government assistance? Or is it that several generations have been weaned on the government teat and now rely on that assistance as a crutch? How many Americans still get government handouts that allow them to get the necessities of life such as CDs, VCRs, R/C TV sets, designer sneakers, etc.?
The story of the ant and the grasshopper comes to mind. I'm sure you are familiar with it. Only the latter half of the 20th Century the federal government (through empty promises and bald-faced lies) has instituted a so-called safety net that allows the grasshopper to play all summer while the ant industriously toils, and then when winter comes, unlike the fable, the government steps in, robs the ant of some of his labor and rewards the grasshopper with it.
What a disgusting system: penalize the productive in order to reward the unproductive. |
