"America must now focus on creating healthy, self-actualizing individuals committed to taking responsibility for their lives, developing their talents, honing their skills and intellects, fostering emotional and moral intelligence, all in all contributing to the advancement of the human condition."


The quote above was from the story written by Thompson. According to quite a few of you that post regularly to this forum, the above statement, evidently, is the fly in your ointment. I've seen many of you post your opposition to people who agree that personal responsibility is the way to live your lives. In fact, from the posts that I've read, the larger the welfare rolls grow, or even the larger the government grows, the happier you are. That is really shameful.


Ebbie,

My parents were strong and proud democrats. My dad actually voted for Nixon as well as you. But before and after, he always voted for the democrat in or running for office.

But one big difference. My father was like Mr. Thompson. He believed in personal responsibility and taught each one of his sons (4 in all) the same values. Now my mother, since voting for Clinton in his first term, has changed her tune and now votes conservative because that's the way that she believes. Her beliefs have not changed. The democrat party is the one that has changed. The far left has taken control and has the party on a downward spiral that shows no sign of stopping. The republican party is now spouting the beliefs of JFK and the early democrats by stating that over taxation is not the way to healthier government. They wanted to stop the spread of communism and fascism. They wanted to stop the spread of socialism. The democratic party of today, by their policies and ideas, have, for the most part, stated that those types of systems are the way that we need to go.

My mother, who is currently working in addition to receiving partial social security, would like to see the SS system reformed for the good of her sons and her grand children. She knows that it's not the administration's goal to stop social security but to make it better for all involved. The goal for social security should be to have people take responsibility for thier own lives in their retirement years and not have to depend on their children or your children's taxes in order to make it. Until now, nobody has had the guts to stand up and put the topic into the forefront. Bush, who I DON'T always agree with, has brought it to the table. Now all we hear is how there is nothing wrong with the system and that his numbers are wrong. That's funny because, evidently, there was nothing wrong with the numbers whenever Clinton tried to champion the same cause.

I'm glad to see that Mr. Thompson has now decided to speak out against the wrongs and inconsistencies found in today's version of the democrat party. Maybe now, we can get to the real issues and start making a difference.


Hubby