This Really Is About Saving America

No one wants any young person to go without health care. But with more information about the now infamous Frosts coming out, including ownership of three vehicles, including a new Volvo SUV - people need to strip away the emotional arguments and think of the practical consequences of expanding government programs over and above what they were originally intended.

It isn't the rich who are going to end up supporting expanded entitlements. Plenty of decent hard working people, with children, people who certainly don't have enough free cash to go out and buy a Volvo SUV right now are going to be forced to give up hard-earned dollars to subsidize poor decision-making by other Americans who, in cases like the Frosts, have more assets and had more potential advantages than they ever had.

For some reason, it appears Halsey Frost either can't hold a job, or has chosen to pursue an un-rewarding career path, as opposed to taking one of the many jobs available in Baltimore over the years that would have made him as much money and provided health care for his family. And he made that decision long before his children were tragically injured in a car accident.

Bonnie works half time doing freelance editorial work and Halsey, an incredibly disorganized lovable goofball, just can’t seem to hold down a proper job or, when he’s tried, to run a proper company.

Yes, the Frosts find themselves in a tragic situation. And nothing being considered, or proposed, is intended to take anything away from that they currently have, courtesy of taxpayers. But expanding entitlements that support poor choices, or an unwillingness to make sacrifices and doing it by taking money away from hard working middle class Americans, is not good for America. It only serves to reward bad decision-making, or lack of sacrifice, and gives everyone a reason to try just a little bit less.

Continuing down that pathway will not give our children the America we want to leave them with. And it will provide them no incentive to make it just a little bit better, even if they could.

Comments

[Lala]

Sweden was fine when the population was made up of ethnic Swedes but now that they have opened their arms to the Iraqis and others they are having big problems.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016082.php

[Lala]

What I like about the Internet is that we have access to all the news around the world and now no one can pull the wool over our eyes any more and tell us how great Sweden is, that it is a model for socialism. It's collapsing in on itself; just another Ponzi scheme.

Here's another good look at Sweden.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/938

What happened to the famous Swedish nanny state, you say? Don’t Swedes pay the highest tax rates in the world? Yes, they do. But tens of billions of kroner, some say several hundred billions, are being spent every year on propping up rapidly growing communities of Muslim immigrants. Sweden has become the entire world’s welfare office, because the political elites have decided that massive Muslim immigration is “good for the economy.” Soon Sweden’s “army” may comprise no more than 5,000 men, five thousand troops to defend a nation more than three times the area of England. Moreover, it may take up to a year to assemble all of them, provided they are not on peacekeeping missions abroad. That Sweden might soon need a little peacekeeping at home seems to escape the establishment. In 2006 the celebrated Swedish welfare state has become the world’s largest pyramid scheme, an Enron with a national flag.

[Wahoo Willie Sez]

Here's where I want live, being so much better than the US:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2570