I recently read an article my friend sent me from the Aspen Times. It talks about the Angry White Man. The article very much articulate my position of the current state of the U.S. Article:
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/2008198091324
Now for sure, I am tired of being angry. I don't think anyone owes me a damn thing, and I need to make it in this world as best I can. However, I will God Damned that someone will take my monies and distribute them to someone that is unwilling to work or have not paid into the same system I have so diligently contributed to over these years. Granted I understand the desire to take care of the elderly or the infirm, but someone that has become only "socially infirm" whether due to generational handout taking, or just decided "if you can't beat them, join them" are not my problem (nor should be anyone else's but their own).
After a recent conversation with one of my wife's colleague's husband that I greatly admire, he introduced me to the idea of Populace stance and that Socialism was furthest extreme of the populace stance. After thinking about, I have decided that I am philanthropic capitalist with only the want for checks and balances for worker exploitation, and physically/mentally infirm taken care of from the populace stance.
Why should someone be punished for being successful? If they choose to give away some of their good fortune, so be it. If not, then who is to say they have too? I am a little tired of this "government should take care of me from cradle to grave attitude" we have developed. I am sure there is another mechanism we can follow that will provide intervention in the form of quelling those in power of taking advantage of the worker, but on the other side, there should not be so much intervention that take care of the idiots, shiftless, and undesirables.
I spend more in taxes than I do for food, shelter, and clothing each year. I have heard of those in other countries doing more, but having more social services. I don't want to jump down that rabbit hole. Instead, I think we should par the services that are given now to the truly needed, and institute a flat tax on all earnings (lower that what is currently there) with no deductions. Also, no more welfare, bi lingual requirement laws on government documents/services, and any state funded institutions (if you are a non profit that receives federal, state or local municipality funds) that provide services, those services have to be repaid if received by or rendered against able-bodied, non-tax paying persons.
