houndawg wrote:JohnStOnge wrote:
What I would say is that the Democratic Party holds sway because it's managed to establish an entitlement mentality. People think they have a right to force others to take care of them. They think they have a right to the fruits of others' labors. They think they have a right to be paid more for what they do than it is worth. So on and so forth.
What you wrote is a reflection of the success the Democrats have had in convincing people who can't or won't succeed that their problems are due to the success of someone else. And it's not.
Good grief, my daughter wasn't this much drama queen when she was in
Jr. High.
Dawg, you John is a little myopic in his outlook but he isn't completely wrong. I could change your original statement to something like the following and it would be just as accurate as yours ...
The DP only exists because people are short-sighted enough to believe that you can take from the high achievers so that outcomes are fair and equal and that there will be no harmful side effects. That the high achievers won't back off and work less hard, that there won't be a reduction in technological and scientific achievements and that in the end we'll all have it just as good or better than if we hadn't redistributed income.
And this doesn't even touch on the reality that the more you ask the government to do the worse it does at everything.
Socialism failed in the USSR and it's failing in Greece and Illinois. The government can't solve all of our problems and it doesn't have access to infinite resources. We should give people opportunities to succeed but it's up to them to work hard and make something of those opportunities. I also have no problem with people accumulating wealth and passing it on to their children. Hard work should pay off.
