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Everyone knows that entitlements are unsustainable; the tax code is a joke; and means-testing programs, minimum wage laws, unemployment and disability insurance are counter-productive.
Yet, the Republican party has not presented an alternative. I have a program to transition out of the entitlement era. The answer is too long for these comments, but I have created 6 YouTube videos explaining how. Here's the link to the one on Taxes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESzXZ0LUumY
It's often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, just a few years more than the Biblical lifespan of three score and 10.
It was 76 years from Washington's First Inaugural in 1789 to Lincoln's Second Inaugural in 1865. It was 76 years from the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865 to the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Going backward, it was 76 years...
that they do not believe
in helping others.
Freedom gives individuals motivation to reduce poverty by creating wealth while family members, insurance companies, and voluntary charities provide safety nets without creating a slave class, a parasite class, a criminal political class, rampant poverty, and massive public debt.
In all the above cases the plain answer is NO!
If I give you a fish you are less apt to try to catch your own fish. If I punish you when you do catch a fish by taxing you then I do worse than help. I'm like the abusive spouse who blames their SO for the abuser's bad behavior. It is like a mugger offering to help you up after knocking you down then hitting you again!
Even the Founding Fathers were only politicians until they created a plan that turned them into statesmen.
ura whiny Repub!
Does that include or exclude religion?