Yes, apparently we’re supposed to be liberal, and say that people on public assistance deserve nice vacations to Disney World and such places.
Millions of moderate income workers can’t afford to take these vacations, but, apparently we’re supposed to allow such expenses for those on the dole. Go figure.
At one point, only people who had skin in the game were thought by our founders to be deserving to vote. An interpretation of this was at the time the ownership of property.
Is someone did not own property, they had no right to be able to vote to increase property taxes, for instance.
Today’s interpretation should be whether someone receives any welfare or other federal assistance.
No one should be allowed to vote themselves money.
It is the reason the colonies revolted: Britain was terrorizing the productive colonies with onerous taxes when they had little or no skin in the game.
We are evolving into a nation of haves and have nots, with the have nots by-and-large comprised of welfare recipients dependent upon taxpayer largesse.
The solution is really pretty simple: revert all welfare back to the states.
Those states which choose to continue the existing spiralling-out-of-control welfare will see a flock of new citizens arriving in their state eager for the goodies, and an exit to other states of those who are productive. With this in the hands of the feds, there is little alternatives available for the common man other than the difficult choice to leave the country.
We are not so much a nation of states than a collection of individual states which choose to defend themselves align together on a federal level under the auspices of a Constitution which spells out ONLY those activities for the federal govt to address, not vice versa. States have been giving up their rights to the federal govt for years.
That is why states rights, fought hard by the Confederacy, was so important for the national well-being.
We have been going downward ever since.