Break free of the useless left-right spectrum. Think freedom on all issues. I want the compassion we all share for the truly needy to mean something, to work. Private charity works, government welfare doesn't. After 30 years of big government welfare, poverty has increased.
Government employees take more out of welfare than the poor.
Private charity delivers much more for much less with money compassionate people give voluntarily. We can do more good for the poor and cut federal taxes by hundreds of billions by replacing the government welfare plantation with voluntary community programs. Over 25 million Americans are occasional drug users, not addicts. Our history with legal and illegal drugs proves that relatively few people are unable to handle addictive substances. All the hard drugs were legal before 1914 and there were few addicts.