Quote from Maverick74:
I would have grown the economy through free markets instead of taking money out of Peter's pocket and putting into Paul's. No value is actually created when money simply gets transferred. Create incentives for capital to grow, expand, take risks, invest, etc. Welfare creates complacency not innovation. Nobody wants to be poor. But when you become their pimp, they are willing to settle. The left in this country has done a fine job of convincing blacks that they will never be able to make it on their own. They scare them with rhetoric about the powerful white man. The worst thing you can do Ron to a person is to kill their dreams. That's what communism did in old Russia. You take away their dreams, you take away their soul. All that's left is for them to follow orders. People rather be free and broke then bought and paid for with a lifetime in perpetual servitude to the government.
