Reply #40: The idea is willingness to take responsibility for your self. [View All]

You can never get that idea across here. Some one did it to them and someone should make it better. Sure there are things that keep you down but you have to work with the cards you have. I like the saying that it is better to lite one little candle than to curse the darkness.
I am finding it weird that I am buying a much more expensive house than I ever thought I would because if I don't I will have to pay more in income tax. I'd rather put it into a house then give it to the government and I was homeless for a while so I know what poverty is. No one did it for me.

If there is one lesson the left could learn from the right it is taking a little more personal responsibility. I think the country is politically centrist because of the level of personal responsibility people feel is correct. On one extreme people are very selfish thinking I got mine, you get yours. On the other extreme is the thought that someone is screwing us over and someone should come along and change that. In the middle are people who look at the world as it is and try to make it better for themselves and others. I find it ironic that it takes money to win elections and money to do charitable things so only people with money have the means to make the changes the far left want but they are always so ready to bite the hand that can help them.

Having wealth is not evil and poverty is not a virtue. People of all incomes can be evil and good..