Bret said: "It's the only possible answer I see. It will never, ever happen."
Well Bret, I agree with everything you have said, and I have come to the same conclusion.
That is why I have quit spitting into the wind and started spending my talk time with friends and politicians on things we can do that might help reduce the percentage of the population on welfare.
My list:
Have trade policies that bring back those little factories in small towns that even with low wages provided a decent living to the small town folks. Lets punish trade partners like Korea that sell here but close their markets to us.Examples Japan tax on American USA rice 770%, Korea tax on American cars 76%,
Teach trades in our high schools and figure out how to impart some skills to the 20 to 30% high school dropouts who are destined to be unemployed for the rest of their lives.
Get realistic about drugs. What we are doing is not working. Millions in jail, just as many addicts, and pushers as ever. Not sure what to do, but if charging the battery does not start the tractor, then eventually you need to try something else.
We say we want people to get up, go to work, learn a skill and be productive. Well guess what, we have 11 million people that do that every day, and we want them to go back to Mexico. Are we nuts? These people have the very old fashioned work ethic we so desperately need. Lets give them a work permit, make them pay taxes, track them carefully, and let them contibute to the country with work and taxes. No need to make them citizens, they did not come here to be a citizen, only to work, so let them.
Last: Shun and ostricize unwed mothers...even if it is your daughter or grandaughter or a member of your church. Unwed mothers is the root and production of the welfare system. We need every tool in the kit to stop that trend, birth control, abortion, shunning, ostracism....whatever.
Bret, that is just a start to my list. Things we can do beyond complaining, ranting and bittcchhing. Edd
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