JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Question for you Bernie,Warren or any other quasi socialist democrat v**ers.
Why do you feel bigger govt. will improve the average Americans life?

Radiance3

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As the government expands, the people shrink. Why? Because they take away everything they have including their most valuable freedom.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

That is why I want to know why they want bigger and more intrusive govt. doesn’t make sense to a simple person like me.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

You are far from being a simple person, J.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Thanks Slatten, but as far as approaching life I have found the simpler things the most pleasurable.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I agree. Now, if I could just convince my Sgt. Major to tone down her material wants and/or needs.

BTW, in our upcoming Brother's Annual USMC Birthday/Veteran's Day reunion at my home, I plan on having our Bosque County Viet Nam Vets group joining us.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Nice. If u think any could be eligible for the “Aid and Attendance Benefit” send em my way. Be happy to send them the app. From the American Patriot Service Core.

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

"Big government is the most corrupt industry in America." ~ Malcolm Wallop

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

And most inefficient. IMO 99% of politicians don’t help the avg. American unless said help, helps them.

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

Big government will k**l the middle class, ... and they won't be moving up. If you're a middle class working tax payer, it's simpler for the politicians to move you into the lower class, than to help the lower class move up.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

How big govt. always works. When socialism or c*******m says everyone’s equal they really mean the populace. Only way to do that is make the populace poorer while the ruling class gets richer. Big govt. and big corporations are the most dangerous entities to our way of life.

JW

I think I can answer that for you, having been a Democrat for the first half of my life.

1 - Growing up is hard. We get our first glimpses of the "unfairness" of life. Johnny has NIKEs and we can only get an off-brand. Billy has a smart phone and we can't afford a cell phone. The big question first occurs to us; why should one person have so much and others have so little? Tom has a letter sweater because he has a car and can stay after school for sports and we have to take the school bus or walk miles to get home. Tom's letter sweater gets him all kinds of female attention that we don't get.

2 - As young people, we see former classmates head off to college and they will become doctors and lawyers and we will become mechanics and retail clerks because we can't begin to afford that kind of education. They will be able to buy the fanciest cars and nicest houses and we will have to be satisfied with second hand cars and old houses in need of repairs.

3 - By the time we find ourselves settled into our lives, raising our kids and paying our mortgages, we have either accepted that life isn't fair or we decide that we are going to force fairness onto life. The only power in the world that can manage such a task is the government. The government can divide up the benefits more evenly by taking from those who have "too much" and giving it to those who "deserve" more.


For the last 60 years, the Government has been consistently under the control of those who have never been able to accept that life isn't fair.

It begins in grade school. The children are told, not that diligence and energy will bring you a successful life but that you deserve to be equally rewarded for participating in life. They insist that the only reason we don't get our fair share is because the rich keep everything for themselves and force us to do their bidding, if we want to survive at all.

One more line of thought gets us to the realization that only the government wields the power to make life "fair".

What they don't tell us is that to guarantee that we get our fair share we must surrender all of our rights and all of our energies to the state. They also neglect to tell us that they will determine what our rights and our fair share is to be. In olden times, they had a word for that life situation. They called it s***ery.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Great post JW...

With your permission I will be adapting this into a lesson for my university sophomores...

Thanks

JW

Consider it yours...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Appreciation