America at a Crossroads: The Empowerment Project

Tina Korbe / June 25, 2010

When Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) came to the crossroads the entire country faces, he named the street signs.

“About a year and a half ago, I was riding from my district back to Washington, DC, and thinking about what is actually going on in our country, what is dividing us, what is steering us in a direction that I didn’t think was in the best interest of this country,” Neugebauer said Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation Bloggers Briefing. “And so, I basically wrote a paper on the plane on my way back called ‘Entitlement v. Empowerment.’”

To Neugebauer, those two words accurately label the competing interests on either side of the intersection. To the left curves a road of “something for nothing” – a road that eventually dissolves into dirt and, then, nothing at all. To the right winds a road of potential – for both success and failure. (more…)