Why shouldn't the government be able to "promote the general welfare"? The world needs ditch diggers too, are you telling me the good old U.S. of A is simply incapable of rewarding the success of overachieving billionaires and risk-taking entreprenuers while still providing a diginified retirement for the working poor?JohnStOnge wrote:Remember that "earmarks" and "pork" are distractions that account for very little of the Federal budget and are most certainly not the problem. The problem is the entitlement mentality that gave rise to the idea that government is responsible for making sure everybody is taken care of. It has taken the form of such things as social security and medicare. That is what is undermining the fiscal stability of this country. We could eliminate anything and everything anybody could possibly construe as "pork" and it'd be like taking a teaspoon out of Lake Superior. Making a big deal out of "pork" is great theater but "pork" is not the problem.
Are we simply inferior to the Scandinavians.
