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Nomograph says

Unless you exist in the lowest socioeconomic levels, food stamps and welfare shouldn’t even be on your radar screen, much less a dominant force in your life.
If I were you, I would take all that time you spend thinking about food stamps and welfare and use it to think about personal career advancement, growing wealth, and business creation. You’ll never get anywhere obsessing over welfare, food stamps, and low-paying government jobs.

Pat Buchanan wrote the article. Are you suggesting that he too exists "in the lowest socioeconomc levels?"

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Benjamin Franklin

Nomograph says

Why not spend your time thinking about how to succeed rather than obsessing about failure?

I have already succeeded in life, but thanks for your heartfelt concern. Ben Franklin also expressed concerns about protecting what the Founders created as illustrated by comments like this:
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

What liberals seemingly fail to understand is that America is a very special country (and concept). Those of us on the right are concerned about preserving what the Founders created. Liberals on the other hand are concerned about creating a socialist welfare state. Therein lies the divide.

Another interesting thought that conflicts with socialist/liberalism:

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What a revolutionary thought! In contrast, liberalism wants to increase government.

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."

Thomas Paine

RayAmerica says

What liberals like fail to understand is that America is a very special country (and concept).

The American in which rayray lives allows people to starve, go without medical treatment, and encourages discrimination. It doesn't believe in helping people through college, providing day care and otherwise helping people to better themselves.

Rayray say that we he & his brethren are concerned about preserving what the Founders created... here's a line from the Declaration of Independence (regarding the King of England): "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."

Kinda sounds to me like they were advocating immigration there.

There's an interesting ending to the Declaration: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

I guess that they didn't mean conservatives as related to lives/fortunes/honor. They just forgot to put that part in. (?)

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson

"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson