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Quote by: Milton Bradley  Wrong, charities work fine, if the Welfare State standard of taxation is not applied, and commerce, and labor can avoid the liability of other peoples problems.
How would anybody ever be able to achieve "the American dream" if they are saddled with the resposibility of having to drag everybody along for the ride?
Individual rights, individual responsibilities. |
Because in the American dream everyone would be able to find jobs and jobs would pay enough so that you can afford the cost of living and also save something aside of those rainy days.
In the American Dream people could start up a small business and turn it into a bigger business by taking advantage of the free market place.
But in the un-American dream we have chain store monopoly, the folding up of the mainstreets and the transfer to shopping malls with only those chain stores selling stuff. And the distrabution centers will not sell wholesale to a small order the same as they do for big orders, so the small family businesses, which were once basic to the American Dream cannot get off the ground. If we had the right system in play you would not have to drag everyone else along because your tax money would solve that problem, once taxes are spent properly and not wasted on unjust wars and useless pork projects for special interest groups.
Why should tax payers be forced to pull all those big companies along with governmental bail outs, special grants, and unfair tax breaks?
Why should the wealthy employer drag along the middle class by giving them union wages and perks?
Why should the middle class working stiff want welfare safty nets? Because they fear getting laid off - and who is responisble for those lay offs? Because their family budget is now "living on the edge" due to rising costs for gasoline and other important basics. Because of the high cost for health care for their family, because credit card companies have deceptive ways to rip people off, not to mention the banking industry. And because they fear that their unions can no longer insure them union wages for much longer, because the boss does not want to drag them along with his profits.
So first we must solve this current American Nightmare and after we do that then we can get back to the American (nice) Dream.
To be united we must all hold hands and that means pulling everyone along in a kind of circle dance, so that everyone who joins the dance is not left out, as the wallflower sitting on the sidelines.
So if you want to be elected, you all better learn how to dance. ( or end up like Al Gore).