Pamphlet #501
Tough
Love
Why try to be like the Former Soviet Union?
Why would a victorious nation
try to adopt the economic system
of a nation it has just defeated
in the cold war?
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While most nations are abandoning socialism
the United States,
incredibly, continues to flirt with it.
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By winning the cold war,
the United States
proved the superiority
of
its economic and political systems.
Socialism was Supposed to be Compassionate
Socialism
was supposed to be
the
most compassionate
and
fairest monetary system on the planet.
It
was really
nothing
more than mutually shared poverty
except
for the few people
who
were in a position to make the rules.
Public Perception of Compassion
The
liberals
cornered
the public perception market
on
compassion
when
the nation lost its concept,
of
sin and redemption
and
the consequences of lazy living.
Class Warfare Created
The
haves,
most
of whom work hard
and
sacrifice for what they have
and
The
have nots,
most
of whom lack initiative,
largely
because
government checks
offer
no incentive to get a job.
What Have We Created?
We
have Created a Situation
in
this Country
Where
an Ever Increasing Number
of
Poor Have No Incentive
to
Help Themselves
Because
their Skill Level
Will
Not Allow Them to Improve Their Lot
to
Better Then They can do
on
Government Assistance
And
Another
Situation
Where
the Well Off
Have
No Incentive to Earn More
Because
of an Ever Increasing
Tax
Burden on What they Already Earn
This is a No Win Situation
When
Taxes go up
to
support ever increasing social programs for the needy;
prices
understandably go up
so
the tax payers, who must support the additional social program, can pay
the increased taxes needed;
therefore,
the
increased income received by the benefactors of the social programs,
give
the needy no more buying power then prior to the increase in the program.
Since the Dawn of Human History
Most People Have Been Poor
But they got by because their families were intact.
True compassion was early America.
The
incentive to work
and
to avoid behavior
that
would not be in one's best interests
was
reinforced
by
the lack of welfare checks
and
the cultural disapproval
of
deviant living.
The
more
non-productive
Americans
think
they can get out of productive people,
the
less incentive
they'll
have to be productive themselves
and
the greater the burden
to
the state and the taxpayers.
As Government Grows
and produces not fewer,
but more people on the dole,
respect
for government declines,
compassion
for the poor evaporates,
and
personal responsibility and duty to help the truly needy
turns
to an ugly cynicism
that
sees all poor people
as
welfare queens and undeserving louts.
In early America,
what we would today
call "tough love" was standard.
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