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Since the election of President Obama the word “Socialism” has been on the tongue of many Americans.  Socialized health care, socialized retirement, socialize anything you can get your hands on.  After all health care should be free and universal right?  No one should ever go hungry or be homeless.  Let’s not forget that no matter how you may have wasted your life away you should be entitled to receive money when you get older so you can retire.  You’re an American after all, retirement is your God given right.

The problem is as Americans we want a great deal but when it comes time to pay up, no one wants to do so.  We need to decide, do we want lower taxes or do we want more services?  There is a trade off between the two.  If you want “free” health care for everyone then be prepared to pay for it.  If you want Social Security then be prepared to really pay for it.  Recently the Peterson Foundation calculated the federal government accumulated $56.4 trillion in total liabilities and unfunded promises for Medicare and Social Security as of September 30, 2008.  That is $184,000 for every man, woman, and child here in the US.  To put it another way that’s $483,00 per household.  Do you have that kind of money?  That money is going to have to come from somewhere so be prepared when your taxes start to go up.

Socializing programs sounds great until you have to pay for them.  Ideally everyone would have health insurance and a roof over their head and food on their table.  However, is it the governments job to take from the haves and give to the have nots?  Or perhaps should government be limited in it’s powers and scope?  If providing comfort to ones neighbors is as much of a priority for people as the government thinks it should be then there won’t be a problem with private citizens and organizations taking on the burden of helping the less fortunate, correct?

The governments place isn’t to provide a utopia, it is incapable of such actually.  The role of the government here in the US should be reduced and the responsibility of taking care of those who are less fortunate should fall with it’s citizens.  Private citizens and organizations are able to do so more efficiently and with more compassion.