-Quotes of the Day

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
-Ronald Reagan

Reagan showed an appreciation and an understanding of freedom and what it meant to be free that is not often seen anymore. We are headed down a road that is contradictory to the values of capitalism, freedom of speech, liberty, and the right to bear arms. The scary part about all this is, there are a lot of people out therethat do not see why this is not good, a lot of people that don't understand why a socialist system does not work. When you begin handing people everything, where is the incentive to work? To contribute the society held so dear? Why should the small business owner who has worked his entire life to achieve his dream of owning his own business be forced to sacrifice what he has earned in order to give someone who has been down on his luck an opportunity? At that point, where is the incentive to keep working hard, providing jobs, and contributing to the economy?

On the surface the ideological and fiscal values of socialism seem unselfish and seem to benefit all. However a deeper study of it shows that it just does not work. This applies to Communism as well. The system's simplest flaw is that human nature does not allow for it. There will always be people who want others to do all the work, and there will then be those who do not want to provide for the lazy. When you begin taking away the freedoms of some for the benefit of undeserving and those who have not earned it is when a democratic nation, built on freedom and liberty, becomes another European socialistic country with restrictions on rights, restrictions on creativity, and a penchant to look to others when in need instead of looking within.