I have an idea - Let's scare off the last rich people we have here

[Canerican]

And when you are job hunting, a cell phone and high-speed internet are necessities, not luxuries.

No they aren't. There are still home phones, which cost far less, and libraries offer free internet access.

It is not about paying people not to work. It is about giving the involuntary unemployed the ability keep what they have while they find equivalent work.

I agree, that is what unemployment should do. But unfortunately many governments are using unemployment as a means of transferring wealth from the rich workers, to the poor (non) workers.

But when you are older, you will probably have adult responsibilities like a mortgage and children, but hopefully you will have also seen more of the world, experienced good times and bad times, and met people from varied backgrounds.

You've read Rules for Radicals haven't you?

Anyway, if you honestly would prefer to pay your mortgage to having your freedom, all the power to you. I respect you for admitting that.

I am personally opposed to Socialism, my parents left a Communist country, to go to Canada (a Socialist country), and then to America (where I was born, and spent time between Canada and the US).

After hearing about what happens in Communism, I never want America to go that way, which it is. I would prefer live in a tent than have the government tell me how I need to spend my money, and who I need to give it to.

If you think that Obama's current policies are anything short of the beginnings of a Social Democratic revolution, you are dead wrong. We are screaming down the tracks in the wrong direction. I just hope that we derail this train before we become one of the next bloc countries.