1/10/2014 3:01 PM
Mel, it is both parties. they suffer from OPM disease which is other peoples money. I bet none of them would treat their own income like they treat our tax dollars. I am pretty hard core against helping corporations or individuals when they won't help themselves. The old biblical thing about giving someone a fish or teaching them to fish still holds true today. If we are going to help people out, don't build forever growing departmental empires to do so. As a country, we are really foolish with money. We give foreign aid to countries that hate us because we want to keep them from being more of an enemy. We give the corporate welfare out like it is candy. We are now all concerned with income inequality. For goodness sakes, we will always have that. People that are smarter or work harder or are willing to take risk always create the opportunity for themselves to make much more than those who don't. I am sorry but if you dropped out of high school, were a druggie or boozer, knocked up your girl friend at 17, never tried to finish your ged or go to community college, you just are not generally going to be successful. That sure as heck isn't societies doing, that is a personal choice based on your own decisions. Why should we take from the successful and give to those who chose not to pursue success. That has nothing to do with fairness. That will be the governments next incredible waste of money, trying to solve income inequality!