Brain Fertilizer

I do still maintain that there is nothing wrong with most of the stated goals of the Democrat party. But I think the leadership has absolutely and totally betrayed those principles starting with Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society'. Right idea: trying to make sure everyone has a fair opportunity and try to eliminate poverty. Wrong application: hiring quotas and welfare payments merely set the social problems into concrete. And moving goalposts for the definition of poverty make it impossible to see how good Americans really have it and what progress we've made. Meaning: how can we really say more people are in poverty now than 20 years ago when many of the people currently in 'poverty' have cellphones, cable TV, cars, air conditioning, and internet access? How did the Democrat Party so quickly and easily betray the principle of "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country?" Demanding welfare and affirmative action is NOT 'what you can do for you country'...

And in the same manner of "$1 million for defense, not one cent for tribute", I firmly support all sorts of true 'empowerment' programs, like small business loans, education/retraining grants, financial sense classes, free daycare if you work/attend class...but I detest the idea of paying anyone to do nothing all day, PERIOD. Well, unless maybe you are completely bedridden... Even blind and parapalegic individuals can be productive, and should be. They should not be encouraged with federal payments to vegetate and deteriorate. Tax dollars should go toward ensuring an environment conducive toward opening small businesses (so minorities can get rich through their own efforts), rather than wasting it in lawsuits making sure an owner is hiring minorities in the "proper" proportion.

As I've said before, no, the Republican Party is hardly top-notch on that viewpoint. But I can influence the Republican Party, but the Democrat Party is too beholden to its special interests like trial lawyers, NARAL, ACLU, labor unions, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, etc, to listen to me. And if I fail to convince anyone, well, then the Republican Party will, for the most part, stay out of my way and allow me to keep more of my money to be compassionate with as I choose. The Democrats think I'm too dumb/selfish to make decisions how to help with the money I earned by spending precious minutes/hours/days/years of the most healthy and energetic portion of my life.