Man is at his WORST when cared for. Welfare is PROOF! It kills the soul.
first it was 'left to his own devices', but when I rebutted that with undeniable truth, you changed it to 'cared for'. And then used one of your favorite unproveable soundbytes. No dice, not gonna fly. Too many people have been on welfare, then got off and worked to pretend that being on welfare means not having a work ethic. It means not having a job, and there's far too much of that because business can find cheaper labor [thus more profit] elsewhere.
Most people I know have a good work ethic - if you know a lot of folks whom don't, well, that's your problem. They are not the norm, I assure you.
The most progress on things like pollution clean up etc, have NOT been done by government.
Maybe so, but if business hadn't recklessly dumped toxic chemicals in the first place [then gone out of business rather than pay for the clean up] no one would have to do it.
MOST conservation work is NOT done by government. There are far more volunteer firefighters than government paid ones. The list is endless.
The conservation work is done by people who care, but the laws protecting land & water are the government - without them, there'd be strip mining and clear cut logging and nuclear reactors in everyone's back yards, because that's how 'for profit' works.
High taxes never work, look at Greece and most of Europe. FAILED. Look at the Soviet Union, FAILED.
Apples & razor blades. We don't live in Greece, Europe, or the Soviet Union.
Want it to work? Barring the very normal ups and downs of the business cycle that nothing can change, ONE low tax rate, NOT on income, on spending. Set the rate for a MINIMUM of 50 years. Consistency, or lack there of, is the problem. Remember, the recovery after Carters stupidity, when lower taxes were put into place was close to 8%. Obama's is not even 2%
Government cannot produce wealth, only steal it.
Do you ever stop with the sound bytes? Government can promote wealth, which they do in several ways, primarily the tax code. As the rich have been getting a LOT richer over the past decades, and the middle class poorer, it's not too hard to see whose wealth the government has been promoting,and the middle class is getting tired of it already.
When Man does not face the challenges given to Him He becomes weak. Failure is only a problem when no lesson is learned and easy success promotes sloth.
If that last statement had a whiff of truth, Mitt would be the laziest man in the country, lol.
Oh, and failure is a big problem when you've got kids going hungry!
God do not every offer a Man the chance to overcome a challenge that He was not first given the gifts to do so.
When you can prove God exists, you can use it in an argument.
The winning is not the amount of what is gained, the winning is in putting forth extreme effort, an effort worthy of your best. Anything less is the worst failure a Man can have.
