I found this to be very interesting open for dialog...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com090...
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/f......
https://groups.google.com/forum/?......
Especially this part...
The Choice Before Us
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all,
and there are only three ways to settle it:
1. The few plunder the many.
2. Everybody plunders everybody.
3. Nobody plunders anybody.
We must make our choice among limited plunder, universal plunder,
and no plunder.
http://cbl2988.hubpages.com/hub/S...-...
Individual charity needs to be thrown in there as well. I can do more good with my charity at a local level than having to send it through Federal beaurocracies and some of it ending up where they see fit. When people are free from making good decisions and just having their needs and wants taken care of from someone else's pocket BY FORCE, they tend to continue making bad decisions because there are no consquences. When a local group helps a family truly in need, great but when that family makes the decision to not put forth any effort to help themselves and decides to only consume what others have worked for, they tend to be removed from the circle of charity very quickly and thus must make better decisions for themselves and their family lest they starve. Hunger is a very powerful motivator.
This is one of the easiest to understand anologies about Socialism
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, and the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quite, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now lets see...our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor: your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English: Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
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