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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

morphed into 'Parasitic Cults'. Entitlements were what someone

paid into and earned. The Parasitic Cult are those that have done
nothing and expect the same, or more, as those who earned their

benefits. The Parasitic Cult are at least socialists. The Benefits
Culture and Fiscal Culture are capitalists. In today's political

environment, that is all it comes down to – the Parasitic Cult
(socialists) or Fiscal Culture (capitalists). The Benefits Culture needs

to abandon the rhetoric of the Parasitic Cult and embrace the Fiscal
Culture they spent their life with in funding their much deserved

benefits. What is the danger of a Parasitic Cult? As noted previously
in this work, this was addressed in Federalist Number Ten,

concerning the destructive role of a faction in breaking apart the
republic. A faction is "…a number of citizens, whether amounting to

a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by
some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the

rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests
of the community." The most serious faction of today was also

addressed during the constitutional debate, "…the most common
and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal

distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without
property have ever formed distinct interests in society.” This was our

Framers concept and warning of socialist – the Parasitic Cult or
faction.

As we have learned in this work, the revolutionaries, our

Founding Fathers and the Framers of our Constitution, all
compromised because they were not polarized, they were true
Patriots for their future Country. They wanted the same concepts

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