[Cincinatus' Wife]

We should stay militarily strong and economically viable - a marketplace for the world and a leader in technology and high tech. The socialists of the world are painfully learning the lesson you can't put everyone on the dole and expect to prosper. Now they've all bunched up together in the EU, hoping it will improve their lot. It won't. We can have cars and oil and be free all at the same time. Capitalism is the engine.

[Willie Green]

We should stay militarily strong and economically viable - a marketplace for the world and a leader in technology and high tech.

I agree.

Unfortunately it is the economic viability that is faltering. "High-tech" is moving offshore faster than its being developed, and there is no value-added in a service dominated marketplace.

And in case you haven't noticed, the modern, efficient mass-transportation systems that I advocate are "high-tech" high-speed rail and maglev. The alternative fuel sources that I advocate for these systems is also "high-tech": nuclear and clean-coal technologies. And to address the growing demand for fresh water, I've also recently begun advocating construction of nuclear desalination plants.

None of this can be described as putting "everyone on the dole".