America's productivity and creativity have kept ahead of creeping socialism. Maybe we'll be lucky and that will continue for some time. The left (and lately, the Republicans) seem to think that the productive sector can take an infinite load of non-productive drain.
Just as an aside, back in the 1950 you could live quite well off one income. Guess why.
And think of all the Federal government programs we didn't have in 1950, yet somehow the streets weren't full of dying poor people, the elderly weren't being shoved out to sea on ice floes, and life was pretty damn good in America, even if the TV only had five channels.
We put a man on the Moon without a Federal Department of Education. I wonder how.
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