Allow all Americans to be productive

Now that the Christmas and holiday season is over and our New Year’s resolutions are still good, we look toward the future. Over the past 40 to 50 years America has changed drastically. The corruption of America isn’t happening in one part of our country or in one institution. It is happening across the landscape in every institute. It’s a moral decay, a kind of greed and it is destroying our nation.

One of the biggest factors in the decline of our civilization is the link between welfare, education, crime and politics. The gap between the wealthy and poor is widening and our politicians argue that we owe it to them to take up more of our resources that only the government has the resources to correct the inequality.

This is a very dangerous notion. It underlies the basic assumption that successful Americans haven’t rightfully earned their wealth. I believe the idea of entitlement lies at the rot of many of our most serious cultural problems. The more you take from productive members of society the less productive they become. This is the primary lesson of socialism.

Decades of experience show that little of the government funding for the poor will never reach those who are actually in need. What have these programs actually achieved? Wholesale destruction of urban communities across America.

If the intention of these programs had been to destroy poor communities, you could have hardly done more damage than the last 50 years of Democratic policy. America has many problems, but neighborhoods represent more than a society in decline. Life in these places reflects a complete collapse of Western civilization. There is just as much corruption on the Republican side of this issue. Please watch this paper for the Republican side.

Conrad Mazeski

Mount Prospect