It is hard to get people to understand the inherent dangers of socialism when all they see are the benefits. President Obama promises to help people with their mortgages and provide their health care, we have relied of Social Security for our retirement, subsidized loans and grants for education, corporate and individual welfare, bailouts and stimulus checks. But as even President Obama admits, there is no free lunch. What is the real danger of a socialist relationship between the citizen and his government?

To illustrate this, consider this analogy. America and its citizens are an army, organized into privates, officers and generals. The generals are our leaders in Washington. The officers are business owners, be they lieutenants or colonels. The rest of us are privates. When the army was assembled everyone provided their own equipment and carried their own supplies. The generals......
American Revolution