When did we stop thinking

While listening to Tavis Smilely's symposium "Vision for a New America" I was struck by the lack of new ideas we are offering up to combat poverty.  On this panel, there were maybe 8 or 9 committed liberals and then Newt Gingrich.  In a symposium that was supposed to be about ending poverty, the following themes quickly emerged; drone strikes, the wealthy not paying their fair share, unnecessary wars, the evils of wall street, the importance of labor unions, the republicans, income inequality, money, and new taxes on buying stocks and bonds.  Take any problem we currently face in the United States and you will hear that it could be solved with more money, and that money can easily be taken from the rich.  It's time we come up with actual ideas, I and challenge conservatives and libertarians in this country to come up with these ideas, because it is all too apparent that the left only cares about leveling society.