The New Resilience

Working as a group toward success for all is a great idea and should be handled at the neighborhood level, not forced on us by the government. Studies show that republican/conservatives are more charitable than liberals.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html

50% of people in this country don't pay taxes. Why should we punish the rich for being successful? They are already paying more money than anyone else. Even if you lower their tax rate, they will still be payin more money. Why should the government reward people that are doing nothing.

The requirements for government assistance should be more stringent, like drug testing for example. I am a conservative, but a middle income family. However, I don't think that a welfare state is a successful plan for any economy. We take care of our own because we want to as citizens of the same community not because we're forced to by our government.

Alot of the causes that liberals support do a lot for people in other parts of the world. If they put those efforts towards problems in this country and quit expecting the government to take care of it then things would be better. Let's be charitable and take care of our own first. After we are in better shape then we can start taking on charity to other countries.

Obama's top down system has never worked or been profitable for a country, Reagan's bottom up has in our own country. Canada, for example, is considering changing from nationalized healthcare back to private because it doesn't work. A lot of Canadians come over here to get medical care, because the wait is too long, along with other factors.

Small business owners create jobs in communities, which is where we need them. Raise their taxes, they let a couple people go, lower their taxes, they hire a couple people.

Capitalism is what made this country great. Moore can complain about it all he wants, but without it he wouldn't be as wealthy as he is, and that goes for the other wealthy liberals as well. Take away capitalism, you have a lot more poor people relying on goverment for a handout. I'll work for a living and rely on capitalism. I will probably never be rich, but rich people providing jobs are what make this country work, like Mitt Romney.

You either encourage cancer to grow or you cut it out. Surgery may sound nasty and cruel but it certainly heads and shoulders above the inevitable result of enabling the cancer spread. The cancer is one of dependency---not be able to make it on your own---or do you prefer the "survival of the fittest" analogy that rules nature.

It swell understood that historically you ALWAYS get more of whatever you subsidize. Let's wake up and instead of going down the same debilitating path every great society has traveled we change course and subsidize hard work, productivity and success and cut out programs that engender dependency and eventual failure.

Every great democracy fell when the population become dependent upon its government and all self initiative was lost. Those democracies were invariably replaced with dictatorships---and they were't benevolent dictatorships.

Bottom line---be very careful which path you choose. The easy one may be comfortable and easy on the psyche but it is also the one taken by those who have lost in our past.losers. It begs the question---Is our civilization greater than those of the past or are we just another example of a failed society who refused to learn from history?