I’m a Republican … That means I’m greedy, right?

Well, that seems to be what many people believe, and it’s apparently comforting to a certain segment of the population. But never let truth get in the way of good politics.

Now, don’t misunderstand; I know that a great deal of politics is the practice of acting. There are those on both side of the aisle that don’t really haul the party tow rope, but find them selfs having to act like the rest of the slaves just to get their own agendas through the system. Often, those agendas simply amount to survival of the fittest in a jungle of political predators. But make no mistake, conservatives are legitimately and personally despised by a significant portion of the liberals in this country and their constituents. I mean that quite literally. It’s not just business, it’s personal, as the Don said. Which brings me to the inevitable question - why? It’s a complex dynamic with a simple explanation.

I like money. So do the rest of the Republicans I know. I especially like money when I’ve worked to earn it. You see, everybody likes a free lunch, but when you’re the guy who’s getting shaken down for his lunch money, it’s not so pleasant. I don’t like getting dragged behind the bike rack and beat up.

For the most part, liberal Democrats maintain their power base by promising give-aways to their constituents. The tragedy of this is really three fold:

1. We as legal participants in this country have a duty to assist those fellow legal participants who struggle or are unable to meet their basic needs - food, clothing, shelter, medical care. The programs designed to meet these needs have expanded over the years to provide for luxuries that we do not owe to others, and should not be giving to them - case in point, buying alcohol with food stamps. These same programs have been tailored to win votes rather then help people. This we should not be doing to the vulnerable in our society. Shame on us.
2. By doing this, we foster dependence in those individuals and groups willing to take the program give-aways. As a result, generations of families come to believe that they are incapable of doing for them selfs and are dependent on the good will of the party and the leaders therein. Not voting for them, the possibility that those responsible for the give-aways might lose the ability to continue to meet their needs, is unacceptable on many levels, but most importantly, on a psychological dependence level. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, you feed him for life. We could learn from that truism.
3. Some segment of society has to bear the load of shifting their earned income into the hands of others. This makes it necessary to continue to raise taxes while blaming the need on so-called “Wealthy” Republicans. Paradoxically, those individuals that are receiving the benefits of the programs come to resent those they see as being rich, when the reality is that the average Republican isn’t any “richer” than anyone else. By the way, the truly rich pay more taxes than any other class of citizen, shelters notwithstanding. For this support of a flawed system we didn’t create, we are vilified for having the gall to enjoy money we have earned, and believing that lower taxes will benefit everyone, the poor among us as well.

Shame on you that preach otherwise to the vulnerable.

The liberal political faction in this nation promotes a class war by taking money from a segment of the population that aren’t likely to support them politically, redistributing that money to fund social programs they know are ineffective but likely to help them maintain their power base. Those constituents that collect from those programs may become dependent on them and in time, develop a sense that they have the right to take money from “the system”.

For those who are capable of it, we should be helping them become self reliant.The greatest help to our society is to be selective about how money is spent to help those in need. Programs that provide temporary assistance and job training/opportunities that promote independence are what our country needs to be spending it’s social program dollars on. If a person is in need of financial assistance, and able to work and be educated while they receive it, we have an obligation to give them the help they need to make it happen. Free vocational training and paid work programs are the beginning, a step toward a real solution. Free handouts without true help is destructive, and we do a terrible disservice by offering them.

For those incapacitated such as the chronically mentally ill, the system must change to focus on the treatment of the illness at hand. Sadly, the mentally ill in this country receive the least treatment. They also get the smallest consideration from the Democratic party that supposedly can solve every social problem by throwing money at it indiscriminately. Most of that population don’t vote. Coincidence? I think not.

And that leaves the Republicans. We actually don’t think you can solve every problem by throwing money at it. There has to be human involvement, human compassion The current social program system is a huge compassion vacuum that sucks caring and genuine help into outer space replacing it with political greed and manipulation.

A common philosophy is shared by conservatives. To us, it’s surprising that everyone doesn’t realize the truth of it. The quality of life for everyone improves with the health of the economy. When you let people keep more of their earned income, more money is spent on goods and services. That means, production, jobs, wealth, and the ability to more easily see to our most basic needs as a country. lower taxes provide a waterfall effect that benefits the whole nation. Lower taxes allow more people the benefits of a healthier economy. With a healthier economy comes less poverty and hopelessness.

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that people spend disposable money when they have it to dispose of. Nor does it take a genius to know that the health of the economy is dependent on the strength of it’s free enterprise. Lest any of us forget, this nation was formed because of the oppression of a class war based on taxes.

I’m not greedy. I’m a conservative. I’m a Republican.

Denigris