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Here is a question I’ve been thinking about about all week: do some have the right to force others to be charitable? Well, it has actually been on my mind ever since I received my first paycheck. At that moment I remember wondering what I did wrong. I knew how many hours I worked, I knew what I earned for each of those hours, so why was my check so much smaller than what I had expected?

Poverty is caused by greedy corporations, Edwards believes. Whatever. Jobs are created by “greedy” corporations. So are the benefits that come with many of those jobs.

Oh, I knew of course that some taxes would be taken out. But the number I was looking at couldn’t be right. Well, of course, it was. And ever since then I’ve known that they do not have that right.

To be sure they take the liberty (your liberty, actually) to reach into your paycheck to fund what they believe is a worthy cause. They deeply believe in the collective (much like the Borg collective on Star Trek: The Next Generation). They don’t care how much suffering they spread so long as they are doing what they believe is just. Take their stance on helping the poor. It doesn’t matter if they are trapped in a never ending cycle of government dependency. I suppose that is why the “War on Poverty” is so very wrongly named. Using the word “war” suggests that there will at some point be some sort of victory and that poverty will go away. Some lefty attack puppy will will now start sputtering about the “War on Terror.” Check Iraq- the surge is working (I know, I’m sorry for you libs but Bush isn’t a total flop after all).

But back to the misnamed “War on Poverty.” It should be called the “pipe dream.” Poverty will always be with us. Granted, it can be lowered but it will not go away.

And how do we lower poverty? The best way to lower it is not through hand outs but through hands off. Think of how many jobs could be created for those currently in a state of poverty if we would just expand our nuclear energy program and drill in the arctic preserve and offshore in the gulf. Think how many jobs could be created if we deregulated business and lowered their taxes so they could hire more people and do more research and development to grow their business.

Business seek profit. The best way to get profit is to grow your business. You grow your business by hiring people, investing in new technologies (which help other companies hire new employees of their own) and being competitive. Think of it: job growth. Jobs for people who what them!

But that is not a liberal enough solution for many. “What, make people work?” That sounds too much like accountability for a liberal. And if there is one thing liberals hate, it is having to take responsibility for their actions or holding people to task for there’s.

It is all pointless musings, though. Government will continue to enslave its citizens that work to provide perpetual free rides to those who don’t. Liberals will continue to be totalitarian, ripping my freedoms away from me to enjoy the fruits of my own labors by demanding through coercion that I help them fund their feel-good schemes. Lets just hope all those poor working slobs like me and so many others don’t loose their own pride and decide that the American dream is not their own home and a brighter future for their children but government housing and dependent future for their progeny.

In closing I want to note that charity is a very good thing. It is just not governments place- it is my place and your place. In other words, people must help people- not some department in a far off capitol city that has no ability to love and show human compassion for the person in need nor the ability to expect accountability and an eventual end to their current state of need. In sum, a hand up- never a hand out.