Let's not kid ourselves. Government "give aways" do not help.

Our traditional American freedoms are being erroded day by day in favor of more and more control by the government--of this, hardlly anyone can disagree. America was deluded into thinking that this errosion was for our own good. We should have remembered that during the 1930's Adolph Hitler was swept into office in Germany by promises of "hope and change," as he put it. Does this sound familiar?

The statists who propose this gradual errosion do it in the name of equality, i.e., equal outcomes and uniform distribution of wealth and property. However, they do not realize that constructive equality consists in equal opportunity to work, live freely under self-government, acquire property, and to be represented fairly under the law. All of the proposed equalization at the hands of the statist is to be done by more and more government regulation--regulations that eventually result in tyranny.

The statist thinks that he can accomplish all this equalization by taking money away from investors in the form of taxes and investing that money, as only he knows how, in government projects. What the statist does not realize is that his money does not improve things because it delets dollars from the bank accounts of the investors who would otherwise use it to increase productivity with their capitalizations.

Statists should look at Europe if they think that their government monies will increase employment. The socialized governments of Europe routinely run levels of unemployment in excess of 10%. The reason for this high unemployment rate is that people will not work if the government will just give them the things they want; and if there is no capital to purchase factory equipment and other tools of commerce, then no jobs will be created.

We, Americans, need to go back to the old principles upon which our country was founded. We need to trust more in the industry and productivity of motivated and dignified individuals. We need to give up this illusion that the government knows best what we need in order to prosper.