Posted by Bob on 7/31/2007, 12:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Bush can invade a country, but ignores children's health" When it comes to fighting poverty, this divide shows up between those who wish to fight poverty by giving people economic opportunities, and those who wish to hand out money to the poor. While giving out money is a good first-step, short-term solution, it is useless unless quickly followed up by an economic incentive program that rewards hard work, thrift, and wealth-producing behaviors, while discouraging the opposite. The social left disdains the idea of a "capitalist pig" solution, and insists on government programs to feed the poor, and keep them dependent on government. These programs entail ever-higher taxes, to assure that the economy will never be able to provide ample opportunities for all who desire them. The best anti-poverty program is to gut government spending to the bare bones authorized by the Constitution, to lower taxes to the bare minimum needed for government to perform its core duties, and to let people do the rest. Do you think that the powerful fat cats in government want THAT?
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The fundamental divide in American Politics is between freedom and tyranny. This is not a political party divide, because some republicans would take away personal freedoms, and some democrats would increase them.
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