Pretty good topic. It expresses what most people who label themselves on the conservative side believe, and that is mainly financial independence to promote strong individuals. I honestly don't understand why most people don't agree with this idea, considering it has done extremely well up until the era of bigger and bigger government which in my opinion was sparked by the creation of Social Security. Considering Social Security, Affirmative Action, Welfare and all the other stuff since then are clearly failing, most conservatives are calling for reducing the size of the federal government. Then there are others like liberals that think we need more. I'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Just look at Social Security. The government can't even be trusted with holding on to savings. Just think if you were retiring and you wanted to cash in on your 401k, and the financial institution that was managing it said they decided to spend most of it or give it away at their discretion. It's downright criminal.