The American Wisdom Series 

Pamphlet #501

Tough Love



Why try to be like the Former Soviet Union?

Why would a victorious nation

try to adopt the economic system

of a nation it has just defeated

in the cold war?

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While most nations are abandoning socialism

the United States,

incredibly, continues to flirt with it.

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By winning the cold war,

the United States

proved the superiority

of its economic and political systems.



Socialism was Supposed to be Compassionate

Socialism was supposed to be
the most compassionate
and fairest monetary system on the planet.

It was really
nothing more than mutually shared poverty

except for the few people
who were in a position to make the rules.



Public Perception of Compassion

The liberals
cornered the public perception market
on compassion
when the nation lost its concept,

of sin and redemption
and the consequences of lazy living.



Class Warfare Created

The haves,
most of whom work hard
and sacrifice for what they have

and

The have nots,
most of whom lack initiative,
largely because government checks
offer no incentive to get a job.



What Have We Created?

We have Created a Situation
in this Country

Where an Ever Increasing Number
of Poor Have No Incentive
to Help Themselves

Because their Skill Level
Will Not Allow Them to Improve Their Lot
to Better Then They can do
on Government Assistance

And
Another Situation

Where the Well Off
Have No Incentive to Earn More
Because of an Ever Increasing
Tax Burden on What they Already Earn



This is a No Win Situation

When Taxes go up
to support ever increasing social programs for the needy;

prices understandably go up
so the tax payers, who must support the additional social program, can pay the increased taxes needed;
therefore,
the increased income received by the benefactors of the social programs,
give the needy no more buying power then prior to the increase in the program.



Since the Dawn of Human History

Most People Have Been Poor

But they got by because their families were intact.



True compassion was early America.

The incentive to work
and to avoid behavior
that would not be in one's best interests

was reinforced
by the lack of welfare checks
and the cultural disapproval
of deviant living.

The more
non-productive Americans
think they can get out of productive people,

the less incentive
they'll have to be productive themselves

and the greater the burden
to the state and the taxpayers.



As Government Grows

and produces not fewer,

but more people on the dole,

respect for government declines,
compassion for the poor evaporates,

and personal responsibility and duty to help the truly needy
turns to an ugly cynicism
that sees all poor people
as welfare queens and undeserving louts.



In early America,
what we would today
call "tough love" was standard.

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