How Does Republican Platform Help Middle Class?

How does raising taxes and expanding social programs help when we are already more trillions of dollars in debt than even our grandchildren can pay?

Sorry to have to break this news to you, but the government does not create or produce anything. The most it can do is take money from those who do produce and create, add a huge overhead, and then spend that money--wasting much of it on things that are more often contrary to the free market system.Example: the Volt. If there was a market for that new-age Edsel there would be no need for government subsidies or coersion. The market would have developed it and run with it long ago.Socialism is not the answer to our problems. How long do you think the folks who actually create and produce things will continue to do so when most of what they create and produce is taken away by force and given to those who do neither? That's the flaw in your system.

That is not "production." Sorry. That is consumption.And that consumption comes, after a huge overhead, when they take by force money from those who do produce. Where do you think they get the money to spend, if not through taxes?If you can't see the difference between these two concepts then you are probably a socialist who thinks that you can keep taking from the productive forever, and get away with it. At some point the productive will go elsewhere, if they can, or simply stop producing. Look at the Soviet Union and their five-year plans. The top-down command economy doesn't work for long.There has to be a balance between what the government takes and what the productive keep to grow the economy and create jobs. Socialists generally want to get all the golden eggs, often by force, and that simply doesn't work.

More like the opposite.

You don't want the economy grown and jobs created?What do you want, the nanny state to care for you, cradle to grave?And what are you willing to give up to get that?

No. Because somebody has to pay that $300 difference.There is no such thing as a free lunch. That's one thing that socialists never learn.

They should have been sent to bankruptcy. That would have helped straighten out the mess we are in.There has to be a disincentive for bad decisions, both for corporations and for politicians.How about the politicians who passed legislation requiring banks to give loans to any warm body in the name of "diversity?" What shall we do with them?

Right up to the point where you have to wait six months to a year for a procedure that you can now get in weeks.You just can't admit that socialism doesn't work. The more aggressive the socialism, the more poorly it works. Been watching Argentina lately? And the request by Chavez for people to cut back on calories? Argentina used to be a very productive country, now it serves as a lesson in socialist economy--for those who can learn from such lessons.

Moving to Canada for their health care?Or Cuba? I hear they're the best! Michael Moore told me that.

Defense is one of the few things actually mentioned in the Constitution.