FREE doesn't quite mean the same thing anymore

When someone from a business says "free", we know that either they are full of garbage or they want your social security number to rip you off. Why would it be any different when a politician tells us the same thing. Unfortunately, the masses of people who fall for the "free" marketing techniques of corrupt businesses are the same individuals who fall for "free" handouts when they vote for a politician. With so many cheap skates seeking to exploit every opportunity, is there any wonder why so many people are in favor of so many social welfare programs?

The last time I checked, almost everyone I know gets a head ache when they go to a DMV or the ER room (providing they didn't go there with one). On the contrary of popular opinion, I think that the majority of the population needs a few more prescription drugs to relax and give the government bureaucracy an opportunity to work. Besides, patience is a virtue. I like paperwork and incompetence. One more thing, I think that we should give the government 75% of our pay checks cause if we pay them more they will quit being non-exclusive and give everyone 100% free health care. That sounds like a grand idea. Oh and call up Aminidijad, I need to rationalize with him. My hypothesis is that the only reason he wants to kill the Jews is that his father never loved him. Constructive peaceful thought and counseling would do him good.

The socialization of the health care system is far from free. Many of us work hard every day either going to school to some day get a high paying job or working hard at your job. Socialization would only decrease personal incentive to work harder as less is gained, more is taken from you and in the end everyone gets the same thing. Sure in a perfect world this would be fair because everyone in a perfect world would have no character flaws but throughout human history there have always been people who are reluctant to work hard and aspire to be something great in life. If politicians cannot responsibly spend our money under the greatest capitalist nation, how could we ever trust them with more responsibility? Its like handing a pair of Mustang car keys to kid that can't figure out to ride a tricycle.

Quite frankly, the only people who are in favor of socialism are the people who don't work or are too indoctrinated to think past square one. If you are on welfare for years on end with no physical or mental disability...the only disability that you have is your own laziness. This is still America, the land of opportunity (I just might eat my words with the outbreak of a depression although immorality is argubly the cause of the depression not the capitalist system itself). Yes, capitalism has its flaws, but those flaws originate in corruption. Isn't that something that every type of government is not susceptible to? Quite frankly, a socialistic form of government is far more succeptible than a capitalist. Where there is power, there is corruption. The more power we give someone, the higher likelihood that there will be more corruption.

The reason that people around the world flocked here was that anyone has the opportunity to be successful. In other nations, the class that you are born in is the class you live in for the rest of your life. Once the incentive for people to work hard disappears, why would anyone to aspire to anything? Forget that, I'll move to Alaska and conspire with Sarah Palin to succeed and set up a truly free country. The great fundamental reason why capitalism works is that it does not discriminate, and just as importantly, hard work and intuition are rewarded with success.