A Note to Republicans: You can't have it both ways.

Republicans,

You can't have it both ways. You say you don't want to have a "big government" that helps people out when they need it. You don't want to have to "pay" to support someone when they're older. You say "unemployment and welfare just makes people lazy.." and that we shouldn't have to help those people out. You charge an arm and a leg for a college education and then don't want to be told you have to pay a certain amount so these college graduates, like myself, can live and support families within reason. You say the government shouldn't be there to tell people what to do or how to live, yet the first thing you do is try to control us and make it harder for each individual to exercise our rights.

To begin with, the government was set up in order to help unionize and protect the people and the states of this country, not the businesses. It's the governments job to make sure people are not being poisoned by the business that "moved in" next-door. It's the governments job to make sure that our land is not rendered unlivable for man nor beast because some people or businesses want to dump their waste into the nearest river or hole. It's the governments job to protect THE PEOPLE from all dangers, foreign and domestic, not businesses and their monetary interests. Businesses need to be regulated to stop them from pumping poisons into the ground to help drill (fracking), to stop the pumping of waste into the oceans, rivers and lands, to stop the spraying of deadly chemicals just so they can HIDE, not clean, spilled oil and corporate mistakes.

In case you didn't know unemployment is an insurance and not something you just give me, but god forbid your insurance company has to pay out to an actual claim after you destroy our economy. Republicans claim they're Christians, yet they do everything in their power not to have to help someone else. Welfare is a help that is sometimes needed and we hope some day you have to find out what that's like, no one wants to be on it. Education used to be something people wanted for everyone, so that we could become the greatest country on this planet, now it's another for profit company to pad your pockets instead of an interest for the country and the people. This country became the greatest because the people worked together and helped each other out when it was needed. They banned together and "circled the wagons" in order to survive and progress. Sounds kinda like socialism to me, ouch.

I personally, would love nothing more than to be able to grab a gun and head off into the woods to get started in my new life, where I could "take care of myself". I would need no money, ask for no help from you in getting my own food, living off the land and supporting my family, much like the Native American Indians once did. Sadly, you make it impossible for me to do even that. You tell me don't expect help and "get a job" but then won't hire me because I didn't live the perfect childhood or have the right family, or skin color. If I try to disappear and head off to live my life, on my own with no help from you, you tell me "you can't do that." You will have me arrested because I cannot build my home on public land, I cannot live and trespass on someone else's land, and you tell me "not there... you don't own that land".

You can't have it both ways. You must either let us pursue our own lives and try to survive on our own, or if you force us to live in your society, you must be willing to help when times get tough. Sorry it's not more simple than that, but that is just how it is. You can't have it both ways.