Something for the Socialists to Consider.

I'm all for giving someone a hand up (happily done it heaps of times)- but dislike the idea of continual handouts.

I dont know where these quotes originally came from, but they think along the same lines as I do.

"Socialism is a great idea- until you run out of other peoples money to spend"

"Give a man a fish and he is fed for the day- teach him to fish and his family is never hungry"

One Simpsons episode summed it up pretty well when Homer became the head of the city sanitation department and almost bankrupted the Springfield city government through providing every sanitory service the people desired.

There is insatiable demand for services such as health, education, income support and so on if they are 'free'. This demand can be sustained only if there are more producers of wealth than consumers of wealth.

Norway has the right idea.

Make the oil/coal/mineral companies pay for the resources they take from our country and invest the money to benefit the nation.

No fat cats taking the cream.

Every citizen receives the benefit from their county's resources.

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well lets have a look at how they do things in the birthplace of democracy. A cunning Greek government!!

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town. No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works