McCain also wanted to give SS benefits to illegals and his open border road to Z pass amnesty and citizenship is an entitlement spending nightmare scenario.

Rome never collapsed. It died slowly as it became poor.

Many socialist ideas can quite nicely be supported and paid for by the private sector efficiently and successfully. And most importantly they can be funded voluntary. Besides, a wealthy and successfully population is always a generous one.

New Orleans was a first-rate example of a matured liberal welfare model. It was a super sewer. To me it was not the failure of a Federal government’s rescue attempt but a classical failure of generational Federal and local welfare. It is a socialist hell based upon an illegitimate compassionate alchemy expected to transform dependence into prosperity when in reality it created more dependence along with misery and desperation. How many examples of pathetic human suffering do we have to experience before we put an end to this outright cruelty? All this in the name of compassion? In the Welfare Utopia mothers and children wait for the postman who substitutes for a husband and father carrying a government subsistence check. It has demolished the traditional family and has substituted a matriarchal hybrid polygamy that is bereft of intrinsic social values and skills necessary to survive in a capitalist culture.

It is interesting to note that Blacks had an illegitimacy rate that was less than Whites in the early 1950′s. They were hard working and religious with strong family and social values. What has socialism accomplished? Nothing but poverty, misery, crime and despair wherever it is seeded.

In the 1960’s the Craigheads were a controversial naturalist family that were known for helping wean the national Park grizzly bear population away from a livelihood related to campground dumpsters that they had relied upon for subsistence since the eighteen hundreds. Of a population of over 200 Yellowstone bears over 80 were killed in the first 2 years because they had lost the ability to accommodate and fend for themselves. It was tragic. Thankfully the population survived and today is strong and independent and is totally self-reliant.

An under reported but interesting part of the Katrina cleanup was the vast number of rescued dogs and cats that many humane societies along with contributing veterinarians helped treat and foster. I can unequivocally state, it was the exception and not the rule, that those dogs were infested with heartworm along with a host of other parasites. The animal cruelty and misery associated with the Welfare State is astounding.

Karl Marx stated, “Religion is the opiate of the masses”. What has that got to do with self-reliance and productivity? It is not religion that is the opiate of the masses. It is socialism. It is the antithesis of human endeavor and self-reliance and the author of human and animal, misery, dependence, desperation and degeneracy and it is also the dream, hope and aspiration of today’s modern progressive liberal.

Has anyone born & bred on governmenty welfare made it big in life, and became an American icon? No! Welfare creates LOSERS of society. Would Obama made it where he is in life if he had depended on government welfare? WHy did Obama succeed, at least materially? It was because he had the hunger in his belly to do so. He was self-motivated. He moved mountains. Why did Obama not pratcise what he preaches – depend on welfare when he was starting out?

Levin gave a most poignant exposition on the sham and misery of Liberalism, and Socialism, on Monday’s program.

Anyone wants a homegrown example of the failure of socialism – look no further than New Orleans! That city was under the SOCIALIST reins of the Dems for decades. “Katrina” brought out the horror and misery of what “social justice”, a society built on the welfare state vision, brought to New Orleans. The Mississippi response to Katrina, shows a stark, chilling contrast, of what the cancer of socialism can embed itself in a society.

Capitalism is the engine of wealth. Not socialism. By emphasising social justice, the Libs, in effect, wrest individual freedom away. Ultimately, through lack of incentives, motivation, mediocrity, a socialist society dies. Keep killing the “golden geese” that lay the golden eggs of wealth, and soon, there will be NO WEALTH to redistribute!

Conservatives need to engage, and confront all Libs on why the Conservative vision is superior to the shackles of the welafer state. Social justice is a sham!

The 16th Amendment turned out to be a socialist’s dream and a capitalist’s nightmare. The Welfare State and entitlement spending along with much pork could not readily exist without it.

The problem is there are 29 republicans that are leaving office, we need to vote in November big time, for those that say “I will stay home” better re-think their conscience, we can’t have a democrat in the Whitehouse and a democrat congress.