This government was never designed, constituted or equipped to “take care” of its citizens.

While I would quibble with the verbiage of that sentence as a reflection of my own thinking, I understand the conservative message of limited government and do not disagree with it. Perhaps I did not make myself clear. There is no simple or easy path between *here* (where we are) and *there* (where we want to be). This implies developing a plan to either (a) reduce the size and scope of the federal government to some level more consistent with pure conservative principles or (b) clean up the “blend” of Big Government as it currently exists, in response to the will of the people who approve of some nominal level of socialism, which a sizable fraction of the American people do.

My intent was to strip some of the dogmatism from the ideological constructs in order to open a path for including “third way” solutions as part of the solution set. Purists will object, as they have. Good luck getting back into The Garden.

My.Only.Point.