Posted by
The Proud Liberal on Sunday, August 30, 2009 2:49:02 PM
The one thing that conservatives never mention when they claim that current spending is stealing from our grand-children is that we achieve something in return for our spending and that what we achieve is passed on to our grand-children, potentially enriching their lives and fortunes. Building a better educational system, a better health care system, a better transportation system, a better energy system, all these will be passed on to our grand-children and they will be the better for the spending we do today. But conservatives never mention this.
Every generation stands on the shoulders of past generations. The good life that we enjoy today in a gift from past generations. We, ourselves, did nothing to earn this gift, which we all receive at birth. "Individual responsibility" is necessary to husband that gift, but did not create that gift.
Our welfare state (what conservatives refer to as America) is the greatest state the world has ever know precisely because it is a welfare state.