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Originally Posted by JCF
I find it interesting that "conservatives" get so worked up about wasting money on our own citizens, our children.
Not all who are poor are so because they don't try.
Some have bad luck.
Some are just not smart.
Not all have a race car to sell to make up the difference.
Why is it it is so hard to swallow the idea of OUR government wasting money (granted that is what it does best) on helping the losers among st us yet the idea of a trillion $'s being thrown into a desert , to help people who clearly don't want our help (now they are even buying their weapons from China) is a wise investment ?
I just don't get it .
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I am not sure, but you probably feel guilty to some degree that you are more fortunate or that you are not personally doing more for those that are less fortunate.
Here is the deal, taking money from one group to give it to another group, beyond a safety net, is morally wrong. Just as a parent not caring for a child is wrong.
So spending money from people on one side, to 'help' others on the other side, doesn't do anything to solve the problem. All it does is make the problem worse because then the root cause of the problem never gets addressed.
In my view, it is a hard, harsh world. And we each have to make the most of the skills, gifts and opportunities that come to us or that we can earn or reach for. Creating equality of result, will in the end, do way more harm to the Little people than it will to those with resources or whom you view as having a better chance for success.
Our founders had it right, the power to tax, is the power to destroy.