I believe that Mr. Brooks (article below) couldn't be more right. If the progressive/socialist Democrats on the left think that free education, free healthcare, free rides is the way of the future they're dead wrong. They often say "we're the only modern industrialized nation who doesn't have national healthcare" but they ignore the world around them. Countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy to name a few are DEMONSTRATING that their system is not sustainable! Does this sound familiar: massive amounts of debt, high tax rates on the "rich", free primary education, free university education, free health insurance, social programs that spend billions? They are proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the extreme progressive social ideas and programs cannot be sustained.
This is the United States of America, probably the most compassionate and understanding nation on the planet, can't we do better? When I was a child my mother told me to be a leader and not a follower and would frequently ask me things like "if everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?" and the answer to that is a resounding NO. So why can't we take that lesson and apply it to our beloved country? Why do we have to jump off the bridge just because everyone else is? Why don't we come up with a free market based solution that is *different* from everywhere else in the world and then have THEM follow us?
The FREE MARKET WORKS. Want proof? We have over 200 years of it in the USA!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/opinion/brooks-what-republicans-think.html?_r=1&smid=fb-share
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