Message To Whitehouse.gov....

The following is a portion of an email I received and responded to from Whitehouse.gov....

Speak Up to Support the Middle Class

President Obama’s vision for our economy builds on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class in America: Job security. A good education for all ages. A home to call your own. Health care when you get sick. A secure retirement even if you’re not rich. And Americans still trapped in poverty deserve a chance to work their way into the middle class, too.
Learn more about the President's plan for the economy, then let the country know that you believe that America works best not when it grows from the top-down, but when it grows from the middle-out.

....and here is the reply I sent....

We can take an enormous leap in the direction proposed by passing the FairTax bill (HR25/S122), repealing the 16th Amendment and abolishing the IRS. Continue taking the leap by repealing Obamacare and beginning a thorough reform of the healthcare system...not just methods of payment. Also helpful would be to turn control of Social Security retirement accounts over to individuals, privatizing those accounts, and establishing an assistance program for those unable or unwilling to manage those accounts. Alternatively, make every member of Congress and the House of Representatives substitute their private retirement accounts for the same system that is now forced on their constituents. Bet we'd see some "Change We Can Believe In" then.

I've not received a response from them yet. Big surprise.

For all the grand ideas and flowery talk, Obama's ideas (which aren't really Obama's ideas) won't work because they fail to address the underlying issues. They're simply a big band aid placed over gaping wounds that need major surgery to heal. What people seem to fail to comprehend is that government largesse is not infinite and comes from somewhere. It comes from people who work and earn a living not only for themselves, but for those that their taxes go to support. Forty seven percent of Americans have no tax liability whatsoever. And a good number of that 47% receive a tax "refund"....of someone else's money.See my previous post here. 

When you boil everything down to brass tacks, the number of people in this country who work for their living are beginning to be outnumbered by the number of people who take their living from those who work. Don't get me wrong...I'm not so heartless that I don't realize the problems some people face in finding employment, whether it be physical or mental disability or simply being down on their luck. Part of the problem is, though, that our "compassionate" social programs have made it a little too easy just to stay at home, spit out a kid, and collect a check for it. The effect that has, in the long run, is to increase poverty by making it too easy to collect a government check. And the people who receive these checks vote...do you think they're going to vote to end their government checks?