Poverty is a Choice for Most

It's really not complicated. As noted economist Walter Williams puts it (forgive me Walter, I paraphrase);

1. You CHOOSE to learn in high school and graduate, or not. (If you are unable to do government high school work in 2007, you need to be in special ed.)

2. You CHOOSE to get a job, even at minimum wage, or not. (Hardly anyone remains at minimum wage for long, if they even started at that level. A couple both earning slightly above minimum wage would be making about $30,000 a year)

3. You CHOOSE to show up every day and give your employer a good days work for a days pay, or not.

4. You CHOOSE to go to college, or not. Do not tell me you can't afford college. EVERYONE can afford college. It might take longer while working, but community college is cheap and totally doable for ALL.

5. You CHOOSE to get married before getting pregnant, or not.

These are all choices which are totally under your control. Do you know anyone who has followed these easy steps and is POOR? Let me know.

Welfare for the Wealthy

More than 53% of the national budget (and therefore, our taxes) now goes to entitlements. The majority of that goes out in "welfare" checks to social security recipients. They HATE being told they are getting "welfare" but that is the fact. If someone retires at 65, he or she gets back ALL the money they put into FICA, in about five years. From then on, they get OTHER PEOPLES MONEY. They may need it. Many don't. My father-in-law retired at 65 as a millionaire. He died at 84. For his last thirteen years of life, he received about $312,000 of other people's money. He "bragged" that he never spent a penny of it. It went into investments. It's not complicated. It's time to MEANS TEST social security. We do it with almost every other entitlement. You get back all of YOUR money and after that, if you NEED other peoples money, you get it. If not, you don't.