"...people who insist on living in shoddily built houses right on the edge of the ocean and want everyone else to help us rebuild everytime a hurricane knocks down their over priced mexican built cardboard box."

That says a lot. I am so opposed to subsidizing others' poor choices.

In the same vein, I'm a little tired of the "we're becoming a socialist country"...and all this "Obama Socialist Agenda".

Guess what? We're ALREADY a Socialist Country! Granted, he may be trying to "make it real", by bypassing the hypocrisy and middle man bloat.

Every time I go to the grocery store there are people in every direction using their Lone Star Cards (state welfare debit cards) and using their WIC chits. Most of these people are actually employed...below the poverty line. Some are legal and some are not. My point being, I subsidize the livelihood of a huge and ever present economy of lower wage workers with my tax dollars. That is back door Socialism. I also support medical...Emergency Rooms quite an inefficient way to go and very expensive, prenatal, delivery, and well baby care, as well as schools and meals,etc. There are a multitude of other religious and NGO charities that help sustain an underpaid sub-culture of trade and unskilled workers here in America.

Established and recognized social programs are such things as: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP program, Workmen's Comp., and Unemployment. No one is seriously considering doing away with any of those that I know of.

And let's not forget the socialistic biases built into our Income Tax Code. New incentives and deductions for the poor to have more babies and to better enjoy the good life being added every year. In turn, leaving us with more lower income citizens to subsidize though our system of redistribution of wealth. Ironically, not called Socialism.

It's not about becoming a Socialist country...It's about making it real, by removing inefficiencies, unnecessary enrichment, fraud, corruption, waste,...and making it real!!!

Hey, I'm not saying I'm for or against these cultural institutions. I just call them like I see them...call a spade a spade...if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Please no more political correctness as we dance around the truth. Time to get real. Way past time, actually.

There are far too many outdated economic models in America today. No longer the 20th Century. Time to step out of the box and change that paradigm.

jsc

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