This is Your Country. This is Your Country on Austerity.

[WizardfromOz]

[Precocity]

[Indy]

I don't buy that argument for one minute, that gov't aid to people simply hooks them on it and they won't then go out and get jobs. Therefore, we need to wag our fingers and say "Tough it out!"

The vast majority of people don't want to be "dependent" on anything--they want to work.

[Spider]

[Davethulhu]

[Indy]

You know what dawned on me last year? The longtime myth that really all this is is black people livin' large off welfare.

Whenever any TV news program shows a job fair/new hiring place opening, like one did here last fall--look who's standing in line.

They're in line because they want to work.

[The Dude]

[OGPhilly]

[WizardfromOz]

[Ben Huh]

IMO the best approach the US can take is a mix of investments and austerity. One, you have to invest in markets that are going to hold long term. If it is a short-term profit market it will become a bubble and burst, meaning the government's investments are for naught and we are back at square one. At the moment, the pet market of Dems is green energy where they hand out subsidies and investments galore to prop it up, despite the fact that it is not a profitable business. If it were, businesses would invest in it on their own, not simply because they get government subsidies (which help to minimize the losses they know they are going to take).

Honest question....Does Chevy make Volts if the government doesn't help them invest in the project? IMO prob not.

Secondly, some government spending needs to be cut. End the wars, cut defense spending, reform certain entitlement programs, etc. Learn how to run departments more efficiently instead of thinking the answer is always "it needs more money."