LET’S DISCUSS AMERICA Part 4
The Cycle of Poverty
Author of ROGUE MISSION
The greatness of the United States is built on a culture of hard work, individualism, vision, perseverance, and success. Those elements of capitalism form the basis of what we proudly call the American Dream, where anyone from any background can pursue his or her aspirations and accomplish wonderful things. Part of this ethos is the belief that our children will do even better than we did, that the next generation will go even further and achieve even more.
Why then do people like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren preach the virtues of a welfare state and pander to the desperation of the poor when the damage they’re doing is so astonishing? Decade after decade, government handouts become more abundant, dooming more and more people to live without goals, stripping them of the incentive to rise…