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Reel, I don't think it's about giving up. It's about recognizing that there are enough voters out there who when offered the choice, prefer a hand out to a hand up and they have happily re-elected Santa Claus. Evidence of the collapse of the work ethic. I don't mean to suggest that anyone who receives some kind of assitance from the government is not deserving, but it does demonstrate a growing collapse of the work ethic in this country. I believe we have a moral obligation to help those who can not help themselves. But we also need leadership that recognizes that compassion for the less fortunate includes maintaining the means to pay for that assistance. A strong economy not only helps to keep people from needing assitance, but creates the means to provide that assitance when it is needed. The presidents economic policy failures are wreckless and a crumbling economy benefits no one, rich or poor. You can't redistribute what does not exist and we can't borrow our way out of this either. We may hope not to be the next Greece, but it will happen if we don't change the direction we are headed. The hope for that change was just postponed for another 4 years. Destroyer, don't write America off just yet, it's not over until you quit.