The GOP screams about entitlements, but they created an elite class resulting in a large amount of poverty.
FACT...about 10% now control 80% of all real wealth..That didn't happen because americans got lazy. Anyone can see the result of that is poverty. As the government increased the elite, they threw bones of entitlements to the dying middle class, if they didn't chaos would evolve.
The same with blacks, for years they were denied equal rights resulting in poverty. For decades, instead of giving true equal rights the government threw entitlements at them, resulting in even more harm.
I agree, the answer isn't entitlements, it's going back to the system of laws and regulations that built the strongest middle class in history and based on real money, the gold standard, not worthless paper today. With a strong middle class, you need few entitlements. The GOP doesn't understand this, they want to continue in the same mess that has destroyed the middle class. Any fool can see "trickle down" Reagan economics won't work in a global economy. Since US corporations can move to anywhere in the world, using unfair US laws, loopholes and regulations to get rich there, that's where they will stay.
Believe it or not, US corporations use to have to work for the US, now they operate in a global world at will for themselves. Yes, US corporations are creating jobs and a strong middle class, in India and China..but when they fail, they still want taxpayer bailout.
You want to get rid of entitlements, study the tax code, trade laws and regulation between 1940-1980 as we built a strong middle class.
Entitlements are just the rich paying to keep the poor from revolution.
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