Fishing Lessons.

There is an old saying that says "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime."  It seems to me, as I look back over the last several decades that the Democratic party seems to favor the "Give a man a fish" philosophy. They have created a generation of people who have had things handed to them.  "Can't find a job? Not qualified for the job? Don't worry about training...we'll give you welfare"  In other words they hand people the fish.  And the children of the people who have been handed the fish expect the fish to automatically come to them.  Why bother to learn how to fish when the government keeps handing you fish.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to get rid of welfare altogether.  There are people out there who work hard and try to support their family and just can't make it with out a little help, and I think it is good that they can get that assistance.  But I think the system needs to be reviewed and repaired. The people out there who refuse to get work, or just keep having more kids so their government check gets bigger, need to be taken out of the system, or penalized for abusing it.

I am also not saying the Republicans have done a perfect job of "teaching people to fish"  but at least they realize that by continuing to hand people fish with no accountability is not the answer.

And another thing the Democrats have become good at is blaming the people who "have learned to fish" for the problems of those who have "no fish".  That is to say they have demonized those who are successful and have made money.  The "occupy Wall Street" movement is a prime example.  Now there are some bad people in the financial business world, yes; but making money and being successful is not a bad thing.  But if the democrats can get people to ficus their anger at business, they can take the eye off the runaway government spending.  With the national debt ceiling at $14.5trillion (that $14,500,000,000,000.00) I think maybe it's time the American people call for the government to curb its out of control spending, drop taxes on everyone, so they would have more of their money to spend and boost the economy.

I do not claim by any means that the Republicans are not also to hold blame for the out of control spending, both sides of the political system is reckless in their spending.  If anyone of us ran our finances the way the government did, we would be in the poor house for sure...wishing we knew how to fish.

An election is nearing...let's find people to vote for who want to help the economy, not just get a tax exempt government job.


okay...I'm done ranting...been a long week...sorry if my train of thought jumped a few tracks.