I have a link attached, which I hope will work, which attaches the article I am addressing in this blog. The article is called "Romney: What kind of society does america want? by USA Today. In the article Romney says the presidential election is to be decided by one question: "The question we will decide is this: Will the United States be an Entitlement Society or an Opportunity Society?" First of all, this is why I am an independant if anything, because I can think of a lot more questions that that. On its cover the whole premise is shallow and one sided, which is what you would expect from a political candidate. Depth looses elections.
Here is Romneys description of the only two choices we have:
"In an Entitlement Society, government provides every citizen the same or similar rewards, regardless of education, effort and willingness to innovate, pioneer or take risk. In an Opportunity Society, free people living under a limited government choose whether or not to pursue education, engage in hard work, and pursue the passion of their ideas and dreams. If they succeed, they merit the rewards they are able to enjoy."
Are you Kidding me??? Why must it be black or white? How about a compassionate society that understands that some people will need help but not EVERY person. An how about a society which invests money in the future but protects society from Limited Governments Natural preditor.
Both extremes have natural preditors in society. The liberal society has a natural preditor called Socialisum. If government is left to grow and grow, providing everything for everybody, you end up with socialisum, which means, the government owns and controls everything, and it is ok to deal with those who disent in any manner available. The easiest is to kill them. i.e. Hitler and Stallin. Fortunately, the USA has substancial protective mechanisums in place via the Constitution to protect from this ever happening. (Contrary to what COnservatives say) The next is limited government. On its surface it sounds wonderful. Words like Opportunity, Free and choice are floated around as if they only exist under limited government, which is perposterous. In addition the natural preditor concervatisum breeds to Limited government is GREED. The world economy crashed because president after president bought into the free market society is a more prosperous philosophy and as a result, GREED became the driving force. Greed was so much in control of the banking industry and wall street that the highest people in the companies cared only about thier pay check. They did not care if the business failed, as long as they got thiers.
Enter the economy that crashed in 2007, during Bushes reign as president, under a free market "Opportunity" Society Romney speaks so highly of. Its unbalievable to me how stupid they must believe we are as people of this nation, that we would allow that type of unrestricted free market to exist again. (When ever a conservative speaks of unrestrictive policies, they are thinking of unleashing the banking and wall street industries again)
This is where the gray area, middle of the road comes in. We develop a society, which out of compassion, helps through government programs those who truly need it. Safegards must be in place to protect against fraud and misuse, and those who do not need it would not be entitled. For instance, if a person retires today, they can be making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and still pull from social security and medicar/Medicaid. This must end. Only those who truly need the help receive it. The rest are cut from the program and allowed to live the life of "opportunity" and "freedom." (One preditor defeated)
NEXT, government must protect the people where they cannot protect themselves. The average person knows nothing about wallstreet or the banking industry, and yet everything we own is entrusted to them. These industries have proven they MUST be regulated. The preditor allowed to roam free will kill at will. People cannot protect themselves from un-scrupulous companies who choose to release dangerous products to the market, we cannot manage the energy policies of the country to best protect our country from shortages and development and still protect our air and water. This is why agencies like the Energy department and Consumer protection are crucial. There are many departments which can be reduced or eliminated, unfortunately the polititions chose the ones to eliminate that stand in the way of their black and white society, in order to make themselves sound good on the surface. As a society, when we vote, we need to be thinking about the PREDITOR that lurks beneath the surface. CHOOSE GRAY. Its a sign of intelegence.
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