Reply #6: I am uninterested in "either/or" games. The truth, though, is that if you [View All]

[MADem]

don't have a workforce, you don't have the capability to provide assistance to the needy. That's just essential economics. You need a tax base.

And if the hope is to get all the money off "the wealthy," well, the wealthy will pick their asses up, pack their crap up, and move somewhere where Uncle Sam isn't draining them dry. They'll flip us the bird on the way out the door, too.

I don't know how much clearer I need to make it. Care for the needy, no one should be cold or hungry, educate children, access to health care for anyone who needs it. Job retraining, employment assistance. It's pretty basic stuff.

I'm not a fan of cradle to grave subsistence payments to able-bodied people who sit around doing nothing all day, though. I believe in education, training, help with child care if needed, and....empowerment.

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, and he sits in a boat drinking beer all day...no, wait, that's not it!