John C,

When you take the rewards of their labors away from the productive citizens and give it to the non-productive citiziens you take away the enthusiam for productivity. The entitlement programs in the USA are the main reason we have a national debt.

Free markets, free trade, competitiveness, productivity, and ingenuity, are essential for the American economic engine to keep moving forward. Along with the entitlement programs the dishonesty, immorality, and lack of integrity have hurt America's chance to regain fiscal responsibility. It will take a moral revolution to turn this around again.

Let's face it America became great because it once was a nation built on freedom from the tyranny of Government intrusion.


Wes

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts