What do you want?

"On the “have-not” side of the ledger, inflation-adjusted household income fell by 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, from $52,163 to $50,303."


Granted, in today's economy $50,000 a year isn't much but when compared to the world as a whole, it is a good amount. The trouble with %50,000 a year is that it only provides for what we need and not much left over for what we want. More and more, it seems that people who only have what they need are starting to depend on the government to provide for their wants. The government, of and in itself, has nothing. All the government can do is take from those who do have and give to those that do not have.

People who know how to get things done will always be able to get things done but will have less and less input on the government. People who have little will begin to depend more and more on the government to give them their needs but if one poor person and one ricvh person has one vote each and there are many more poor people than rich people, the poor will control the government.

I find that the more one depends on someone else to support them the less incentive they have for supporting themselves.