A good policy is like... (#1738)

For me a good policy is one that alleviates more harm than it creates. A policy that is not good creates more harm than it alleviates. There are also balance issues, are all walks of society sharing in the opportunity to have happiness in their lives or are only some having opportunities to have happiness in their lives? A way to find out is, especially at the low economic end, to try to live on the income and see if your needs are being met. I can tell you now that the needs at the low end are not only not being met but the needs are increasing. That our policy makers are further and further from being at the low economic end does shine some light on why they fail to see this. It is not the only reason as we have political parties that allow for politicians to much more easily gain the alluring notoriety of being elected representatives, but in doing so the parties also control what policies are generally forwarded. In the current Republican party they have built a wall around their ideal that the less well off in our country are to blame for their lot, while they contrarily continue to block any legislation to help those same less well off with opportunities to better themselves. Let me say that again, Republicans blame the less well off for not improving themselves, while at the same time Republicans continue to block any legislation that would actually help the less well off better themselves. This leaves the rest of us with a real clear choice for elections this next political cycle, vote every Republican out of office everywhere. If a political party is not going to stand up for the majority of Americans then we need to replace them with the political party that will. Vote Democrat!