I have now posted a link to this blog on Facebook.com. I am certain that some of my friends do not share my political views, absolutely certain. Please bare with me. First and foremost, I am for global prosperity and wish the best for all. I simply believe that the best way to accomplish this is with conservative principles and not the principles that have come forth from government since Johnson’s Great Society. We have indeed created a nanny society which has not helped its dependents. Poverty is still present and growing. Welfare is growing, now including private enterprise. Out of weddlock child birth is rampant despite clear facts that support the contention that children without two parents fare much worse in life. The product of our public education continues to worsen. We are in a financial crisis largely at the fault of Washington via the Community Redevelopment Act (CRA) which imposed a burden on financial institutions to lend to those who could noe afford to borrow. Of course, greed played a huge roll in our current crisis; greed on Wall Street and Main Street. Face it folks, when given the opportunity, we humans get greedy. Wall Street made huge short term profits resulting in ultimate loss. Folks purchased homes they could not afford, resulting in ultimate loss.

So how does conservativism fix this? Here’s my plan. We do need a safety net that catches those who really do need help. It is my position that this would not include businesses. It is also my position that this would not include those who, shall we say, made their own bed, whether it be through sloth, drug addiction, crime, lack of education, etc.

Point one: I don’t want anybody starving, a little hungry maybe, but not starving. And kids should never go hungry. I don’t want anybody dying for lack of health care, well unless they smoke or do drugs. Those folks who spend money on bad things should not be able to burden those who don’t.

Point Two: We need to give more respect to those who are struggling. We need to encourage and provide opportunity rather than discourage and reward bad behavior. Isn’t our current system sort of like spoiling children. They love it in the short run, but in the long run, they end up not being equipped to deal with the real world. Today’s welfare policies whether they be corporate or individual encourage dependency and discourage independence, very un-American. I find the “lefts” continued creation of diverse needy groups to be insulting to the very groups they claim to want to help, this again, includes corporate America as well as individuals. I tend to believe the “left” cares more about the votes than the people.

Point Three. We need to provide incentives for the under classes to succeed. The first one would be eliminating taxes on the first fifty thousand dollars of income. Don’t even take it from their paychecks. The second one is that we need to avail folks of vouchers so they can chose their children’s schools. This will cause competition amongst schools which will improve education. The third is that we need to set standards, get rid of political correctness, get rid of acceptance of that which is unacceptable. For example, Americans should speak proper English. And pull your pants up. Schools should have dress codes, even uniforms in lower class areas where a dress code might financially burden a family or a sinlge mom or dad. And we should make it a priority to have folks keep their neighborhoods clean. I don’t know about you, but if I left my house each morning to an environment filled with vandalized property, debris and grafiti, I would be depressed and less inspired.

So there’s my three point plan. One, get the government off the backs of the lower wage earners. Two, show some respect, create opportunity rather than need. Three, provide incentives to do better.

Government has attempted to educate, inspire, and provide, and it has failed at all three. It is time for a change, before it’s too late. And it might be. If more than half of Americans are needy, they will vote the providers/producers into oblivion and the providers/producers will leave and stop providing/producing and then there will be more need and we will spiral into third world land.

And I don’t want that to happen to anybody. That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Brett Reetz