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Beers with our Founding Fathers

a wealthy socialist (or lesser liberal) that is willing to give up half of

their accumulated wealth. Even if you could find them – taking all of
the wealth of all of the wealthiest would not resolve the suicidal

debt and deficit fatalities we face as a country. The most prevalent
socialists are in our states’ and nation’s capitol buildings – they

could be called ‘capitolists’, but let us not confuse the economically
illiterate masses who do not know that the ‘capitol’ is the building,

not the capital city. Unearned taxpayer funded government
handout programs cannot work simply because the government is a

non-profit. It does not generate income; it is given money – like
donations, only through forced taxation. Therefore, government

only spends money and cannot be profit motivated, ever.
It is like a child’s allowance: the parent pays the allowance and

the child spends it. The child never really ‘earns’ the allowance,
there is simply an agreement of chores for spending money. In

spending the money, the child buys a static want – such as a toy or
video game. The child’s economy has ended and produced nothing.

If the child were to use that allowance to start a for-profit lemonade
stand, that child’s economic world would broaden and prosper. The

government cannot open a lemonade stand. If the government
were to confiscate the lemonade stands, or at least the profits to

distribute among other children equally, that would be socialism
and lemonade stands would close. In a recent statement of the

current and perpetual economic crises that Congress foments,

president said, “We can't cut [spending] our way to prosperity." This
is a comment by a person that should be held in the highest
contempt, as that is his view of the American people. It is a telling

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