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The main problem with most socialist programs is that they encourage laziness. A lot of people, if they don't have to work very hard to get more than the basic neccesities of life, won't. They will let those people who want the better things in life go to school longer, fight to get better grades and better jobs, work harder, have less children because they feel guilty about having other people pay for what theirs need, and contribute significant amounts of their pay to support the lazy ones. Any time one class of people has to contribute money they worked for, to pay the bills of some who just plain don't want to work hard, you have a system that is someday doomed to fail. I am not talking about the handicapped, the elderly, or those who need temporary help to get back on their feet; I'm talking about the chronically lazy. Welfare in this country was designed to be temporary, and only as a help to get people back on their feet. Over time it has become a way of life for whole communities. I have no problem helping out those truly in need, through no fault of their own. I would just like to be able to see that my tax dollar isn't spent of the lazy.

And the rich and big business aren't the main cause of our woes. It is the laws that let some of them get away with paying less of a percentage of their incomes than the middle class workers. The only way we can fix that is to totally revamp our tax system. It isn't going to help to increase the social programs for the poor if the main source of the money for those programs continues to be the middle class. The rich and big business will continue to do what they have done for years. They will take advantage of every loophole available to them. We also need to close those loopholes that let the lazy get away from living on the rest of us.