simply put

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

- President John F. Kennedy

A statement like that sure doesn't sound like something a democrat today would say. It would in fact sound more like "Ask not what you can do for your country - but what your country can do for you." We are in a day where the populace wants to suckle from a red, white, and blue sow teat. Where are the individuals that this country should be composed of? Not victims - not wards of the state - but where are the kind of individuals in pursuit of their own life, liberty, and happiness?

Simply put - socialism isn't the brighter road to life, liberty, and happiness. If this nation turns that sharp left - further burdening those who try to make their own way, and to grow to a place of employing others - over taxing will cause businesses to fail and jobs to diminish. There is no such thing as taxing a nation into prosperity. We'll just go deeper into the abyss. If you want a nation to prosper - have Uncle Sam take his hands out of the back pocket and allow people to have more of their capital to grow their business. Heck, even JFK knew that tidbit. Shouldn't this be common sense?

If you let business owners keep more of their earned money money - that is how we might increase the wealth of our nation as a whole. You can not look through a "have and have not lens". You can not spread wealth by confiscating an other man's hard earned money. Let the man with the ten talents increase his talents. The man with little talent doesn't do anything with his - nor does he even pay taxes. Let the man who can prosper - prosper. This might not seem fair to the touchy-feely democrat - but it's sound business concept and Biblical at that.

But liberals call that kind of thinking greedy. Greed is the big sin in the liberals bible - capitalism = evil. But liberals cast stones at those they percieve as greedy - that it's okay to COVET and take what is not theirs. Ask HOW MUCH your country can do for you! That should be their new motto. The money will come from somewhere and it will come from those that earned what they make in this life. The money is taken and given to those that haven't earned it. These people nevertheless strongly feel entitled and - in fact - their right to demand it. Where is the common sense?

There's just a multitude of hands out reaching to a little messiah that offers a generous quantity of vague hope and big secound helping of ambiguous change. Let us hate those that have made something of themselves, and rob from his house, so as to divide among the masses. Let us ransack their dreams so that we can inforce our nightmare. Spread the wealth - all in the name of goodwill to all. That sounds like Utopian kind of civilization. NOT! Again, when in the course of history did socialism ever work? NEVER! Yet there will always be those that believe that the great socialist experiment never has been done right by previous civilzations. It's their job to push a nation deeper into despair - with hopes that this time - the experiment will work.

Why does socialism not work? Because there is only so much resource. How much can you keep raising taxes on a minority of productive individuals and businesses before there is simply nothing left to tax? How much can you take from the few to support the many? Liberals like to make big business the bad guy - but BIG GOVERNMENT are the ones to watch. Big government are the real wolves. True, government is a necessity, but it needs to be kept accountable, small, and at bay.

Take the recent financial crisis. The democrats caused the current calamity - yet blamed Wall Street as the prime culprit. Yes the little savior himself, Obama, is a big part of the disaster. He's one of them that started the fire and yet he's the man promising to put the fire out. Change? That sounds like the same old same old. Our nation has been flung head long into this mess because democrats wanted to do a little social engineering experiment. I repeat - socialism never works.

Ronald Reagan was right - government isn't the solution - government is the problem. We'll - get ready folks - we've got more problems heading our way. More sure fire social experimentation to come. In the mean while - don't change that dial.