How DARE Conservatives be against helping people!

That seems to be the mantra du jour from Progressives (remember, Progressivism is the same as Marxism, only "slow cooked").  Demonizing Conservatives by holding them to be cold-hearted skin flints, holding onto the money that they earned, and wanting government to do less and less, they let their verbal cannons fly.

Here’s their single largest problem (from a post at CNSNews on what the debt is going to do to the economy as a whole):

Ryan pointed out that the Government Accountability Office recently reported that the federal government already faces a “fiscal gap” of $76 trillion, meaning that over the next 75 years the cost of the benefits promised in federal entitlement programs exceeds the tax revenues expected to pay for those benefits by that amount. That works out to almost $250,000 for every single American and about $650,000 for every American household.

And when you question them on this, when you are unrelentingly focused on getting the question answered "and who is going to pay for all this?", Progressives have no answer.  Oh sure, they prevaricate that the rich will pay for it (where the top 1% already pay 40% of all income taxes even as they only earn the 22% of the income) – even as that $76 Trillion works out to be every single penny of the entire nation’s GDP (approx $14 Trillion/yr) for 5.4 years. 

That ain’t (and CAN’T) happen – you can tax 100% of everything away from everyone and every business and those GOVERNMENT processes (made by both clueless and power-greedy politicians) and the shortfall still can’t be made up.  EVAH!

Once again, what the Progressives are pitching for an end game (and make no mistake – it is complete socialism via Government control (if not direct ownership) of society) will come to a complete fall off the cliff.

Ask them this question: what are you going to say to all those people YOU have made dependent on government for their very being when the money runs out?

My take?  Weaning people off government dependence is the answer and returning to what de Toqueville called America’s best feature: self-responsibility and individualism.  Too many things become politicized once government has touched anything and all Government money comes with strings. 

The example has already been set forth: are you a Katrina victim or a Mid-West flooding survivor? self-reliance is the key – which do you choose to be?  What is it that you want your family to learn?