If we continue to think of government as the plantation owner and the citizens it serves as dependent slaves then we’re no longer destined for greatness.
It’s easier to just pass out benefits and cash than it is to create programs where the person receiving those benefits has to have some skin in the game.
According to a recent CNN poll 53 percent of the people polled don’t believe the President of the United States is trustworthy. Those who trust Congress are in single digits in some polls.
In the 1960’s President Lynden Johnson came up with the idea, for what he called, “The Great Society.” It was partially modeled after John Kennedy’s “New Frontier” program that stalled during his term.
The principle goals of the Great Society were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice...