I like you guys too much to want to go too far down this road, so maybe we should drop this, but I will say this and I'll leave it at that...

First of all, I'm don't consider myself poor but I'm not rich or even what I'd call middle class. But I'm still a conservative and I still think the rich are rich because they keep doing the things that make them rich, and the poor stay poor because they keep doing the things that make them poor. You cannot keep making the same decisions and expect anything to change. And the wealthy have as much right to their money as you or I do. It is theirs and nobody has a right to try to tell them how to spend it or how much they can have. You've got no right to it. I guess you want to take their money and spread it around so everyone is equal. Well you just watch what happens to unemployment and your standard of living when you get your way. We'll all be equally miserable - I pray you never get to see how you like it then. I've about had it with jealous people wanting to cut other people off at the knees - not because it will do a damn thing to improve their lot in life, but just because they have more than they do and they can't stand it. It's sick.

Reagan cut taxes, the economy spiked, and revenue to the government doubled while cutting taxes sharply. Letting people keep more of their own money works. And if you're so worried about your taxpayer dollars, you need to start demanding some accountability from your government regarding how they waste those dollars. Government was never meant to provide anyone with social security because they won't save for their own retirements and all these other things government does now that it has no business getting into. But lots of folks don't want to do anything about it because once they get on the government take and get used to the handouts, they don't want the personal responsibility that comes with turning that around.

I fear for the future of this great nation. People have become so misguided that they don't even know the basics about how this country came to be and what made it great. It is a historical fact that whenever the populace of a nation discovers it can vote itself money out of the public treasury, that nation crumbles and becomes a pale shadow of its former self. Our founders understood this and that is why we were founded as a representative republic. That is why the word democracy does not exist in our founding documents. Our founders wisely sought to avoid it altogether. Democracy is inherently flawed - it is mob rule rather than rule of law. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for lunch. Get a clue before we're all screwed.

Rant over.