FINALLY!!

I had been leaning toward Rick Santorum for the last month or so and now I am behind him 100%. We have needed a candidate that will come out and talk about the issues that matter and to do it with common sense.

The use of the words "income inequality" is a ploy used in class warfare. To ask for income equality is to ask for tyranny because it requires the government to control outcomes. And the only way they can do that is through force and coercion, to take, usually by taxation, what one man earned through his own hard work and ability and to give it to someone else. As Milton Friedman once said:

" a society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."

What is so great about our country, and this is precisely how our founders intended it, is that there is equality of opportunity. It allows people the freedom to take risks and become successful. True, some fail but they often pick themselves back up and try again. Most successful people didn't get there because it was handed to them, they learned from their failures. A great example of this is the wealthy people in america. The majority of the most wealthy people in this country didn't get there because they inherited it. If you look at Forbes list of the ten wealthiest American's, only the Walton's inherited their wealth. What this means is that the rest earned their wealth through hard work and innovation, something that would be impossible in any other system of government. I will end it with another great quote from Milton Friedman:

"The only cases in which the masses have escaped from...grinding poverty...the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system."