I was driving home from work yesterday and I heard the 80's song "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. The lyrics are interesting to say the least. If you remember the song, it talks about a young couple up against the world. After listening to the entire song, I realized there was not one mention of the government helping them out or the couple using food stamps or welfare. In fact, the lyrics are inspiring.
They talk about making it whatever the costs. I believe that is what life is like. Stuff happens and life- you lose your job to someone overseas, you contract some sort of disease, that unexpected child comes along, what you thought was a good deal on a mortgage winds up costing you your house. What defines you is what you do next. The weak will blame everyone else and then go camp out on the governments doorstep. The strong pick themselves up, find new opportunities and make something better of themselves.
Isn't that the way it should be.
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I'm not sure I ever understood what a libertarian is.
The Republicans believe that people gain prosperity thru responsibility and that any socialistic measures just encourages more irresponsibility. To a large extent, this is true.
The libertarian wants the government to be hands off, I think, but we had that in the old Wild West – too many sod busters getting gunned down because their plows and fences interfered with the local grazers. That don’t seem to work either.
The Democrats see the bad side of socialism and how it does not work and the bad side of capitalism and how it leaves the destitute stranded. So they have this utopian idea that they can come to the middle. And thus, you have Hilary and Barack.
In the worlds most dangerous crisis (lack of enough food and oil) these brain trusts want universal health care for everyone, which like it or not would include anyone not here legally.
The Democrats, like it or not, will kick in their programs of income re-distribution which will just sent the “movers and shakers” off shore leaving Hilary and Barack trying without success to figure out (like California) how in the hell they are going to recover dwindling high-tax producers to cover mountainous social expenditures.
It won’t work, but they don’t seem to care. After all, it is “Change”.
Mike
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