I would love to know the countries that followed those 4 principles that have a great middle class and are not in worse financial shape than we are in. The problem is when you have these programs the people finally figure out how they can abuse the system and not work at all but will take the money from the people who do work. The longer the programs are in existence the more they are abused. Why do you think we have 49% of the people on the government hand out and pay 0 taxes but they expect everyone who is working hard and paying taxes to pay more taxes so they can have more of the easy life.