The War is a Complete Failure….

The war is lost.  We have spent TRILLIONS on this war with no ability to gain even a foothole in this problem.  We have fought this war for long enough and to no avail.  It’s not working.  It’s time for a change in course.  I’m talking, of course, about the War on Poverty….

 Entitlement spending is the biggest thorn in the government’s side since really FDR in the 1930’s.  The “new deal” that has become a political monstrosity of Kong and Godzilla proportions.  It was further strengthened by “the great society” social policy of Lyndon Johnson in the 1960’s.  As usual with government programs what starts out as a hand of help turns into a massive undertaking.  By the way, you and your future generations are PAYING for that undertaking out of your own pocket as is how the government pays for ANYTHING.  It’s called “feel-good” politics.  Legacies are more important than a self-sufficient American people.

 Entitlement spending alone this year is costing us over 40% of our federal budget.  It’s in the trillions. As I said earlier this is a war we really starting fighting in the 1930’s and nothing continues to be solved.   So why don’t the dems call for an end to THIS war?  TRILLIONS of your hard earned dollars have been spent over the last 70 years for this cause.  You have no say where your money goes in this situation.  A government that is supposed to be paying for your protection and other small public services according to our constitution is mishandling your hard earned money to pay for the dependency of others.  This is America.  We are not a dependent state.  We have more opportunity in this country than anywhere else in the world.  Welfare, Medicare,  Social Security are just a few examples of the government programs that are mismanaged terribly by politicians in Washington in the name of legacy and “feel good” politics rather than what is right for America. 

 What is right for America is a country of self accountability and self sufficiency.  What is right for America is a country of people that can stand on their own two feet and create for themselves.  The old saying goes as “Fish for a man and feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for life” and that is more true than people realize.  Instead it seems we leave it to the middle class to not only provide for themselves and their families, but millions of others as well.  It gives new meaning to the joke “work hard every day because millions of welfare recipients are depending on you!!”…. Touche my friend.

 This all being said I’m not against the state helping it’s people in need their own way.  I know some are in a pinch and need help.  I feel each individual state can decide what programs they will have and how they will pay for those said programs themselves.  They know the urgency of their poverty problems MUCH better than any bureaucracy in the federal government.  This also will let the local people have more power and say in the problem through their own chosen leaders in that particular state. We need to weed out the BILLIONS being wasted in fraud.  We need to measure people’s progress.  People have to WANT to climb out of their hole.  If they don’t then maybe they need the wake-up call of falling flat on their own face.  Better the individual learn that way in a free society that offers opportunity rather than a country learning that way through bankrupting itself and it’s already self sufficient citizens.