FREE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS WILL POISON THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

FREE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS WILL POISON THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

Many nations of the world are exotic or at least interesting to visit. The food, architecture, language and history are wonderful to see and experience first hand. Not only is it intellectually stimulating but it is an eye opener as to what is different from your country. There are rich and poor in every nation. Being rich in most countries is a very comfortable situation. Most of this upper class can afford to have house servants that few middle class Americans can employ but at times may want. In other nations the upper class people’s wealth allows them to purchase individual services more cheaply. These servants receive insignificant compensation for their services although they work hard but have little opportunity or real hope of bettering their status. They live hand-to-mouth. This is not the case in the USA.

The United States is still the land of opportunity for class advancement. Anyone who is committed to obtain middle or upper class status has to do only two things here: work hard and sacrifice pleasures to build up their assets. Depending on the level of persistence and perseverance a person will reach his goal over time. This can be accomplished within our current tax system but will come to a screeching halt if we move into a socialist welfare state.

There are many socialist/progressives and communists who have come out of the closet to openly announce that they want free university education, free health care, guaranteed income for all citizens with livable income paid by the government who hires everyone. These policies would destroy America’s economy.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise election by winning only a small percentage of democrat votes is making Bernie Sanders look conservative. Even though she was raised in a wealthy Westchester town her supporters claim she was “a poor Puerto Rican person from the Bronx.” Her father was an architect, not a welfare recipient. Her policies, like all socialist/communist proponents, sound great but have not worked in reality.

This question of where the money will come from is never answered honestly. The reason is the government would have to rob (confiscate) from others to give the goodies to the slackers. This would be more than objectionable to the average American. The only way socialist/communist policies can be adopted is through public ignorance or charismatic lying thugs like Stalin, Castro or Chavez forcing socialism down the throats of the people.

Obviously, once the money is stolen from hard working people they cease to be hard workers. Merit is thrown out the window. This poison spreads until a rich country like Venezuela plummets through hyperinflation and turns into a pathetic, poor nation where citizens are fleeing in droves to more stable countries.

Under President Obama’s eight-year administration we received a “socialist-light” taste of redistribution of wealth. This was done under cover by changing bureaucratic regulations to ease the ability for people to receive government assistance. The unemployment compensation was extended to 96 weeks. The SNAP program expanded the number of participants as well as the list of products recipients were entitled to receive. The free phone program was expanded and student loans were federalized. The big enchilada was the administration ramming the Obamacare program through the legislative process.

The “new normal” was a 1.8% economic growth over the eight-years of the Obama administration, high unemployment, declining average wages, large increases in potential workers dropping out of the labor market.  The stagnant economy was constantly rationalized as the “new normal.” The results of these socialistic policies were a stagnant economy.

President Trump implemented conservative ideas into his administration. The US economy took off like a rocket. He backed off government regulations, freeing businesses to gain autonomy over their own operations. He obtained a significant tax cut for businesses and individuals and brought many corporations back from abroad. These measures stimulated the free market increasing the economic pie. This increased job opportunity and through competition increased employment wages.

Illegal immigrants are attempting to invade the United States’ borders to become part of our prosperous economy. Destroying the work ethic by imposing socialistic/communistic utopian ideas of free everything will not be imposed on our citizens without destroying our economy. These seekers of a better life are the best indicators that the US capitalist system is the best economy in the world.

Abandoning the principles of free market capitalism would be irrational. It would crush the greatest economy on earth. Destruction of the world’s beacon of freedom and prosperity would leave the world clueless as to what the possibility of a free and prosperous nation is. Everyone on earth would be losers for its demise.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.