Government's view
of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
News Reports Indicate that over 20 Democrats have
declared their intention to seek their party’s nomination for president in
2020. Along with other leading voices in
the US House of Representatives and the Senate, they all seem to think that
there is support for a move toward big government programs paid for by taxes on
the rich and big business. I pray that such support is not sufficient to carry the election in 2020.
For those who are too blinded by ideology to see the good
that President Donald Trump’s conservative, capitalist policies have done for
the country, let me refer you to Aesop and his fable about the goose that laid
golden eggs.
If you remember, the fable tells of a poor but honest
farmer and his wife. No matter how hard
they struggled, they could barely make enough to subsist on. Then a goose wandered onto their farm and
began laying eggs of solid gold. Each
day when they checked its nest, the farmer and his wife found one golden
egg. Their neighbors advised them to cut
the goose open, so they could get all its golden eggs at once. In their greed, they did so. However, they found nothing but the poor
creature’s insides, and the goose died.
In their desire to get all the eggs, they lots the chance to keep
getting one egg at a time.
Some Democrats, Progressives, Liberals, Democratic
Socialists, and whatever are telling us that the rich are getting richer and
the poor are getting poorer. They say
that people get rich in a capitalist system by exploiting the poor. They want us to believe that global warming
is our greatest threat, and that overconsumption is causing it. (YO! It’s your fault.)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY) has said that billionaires should be made illegal. Too bad that she doesn’t feel the same way
about people who enter the country illegally.
These Pied Pipers are
promising the American people free health care and higher education. They promise open borders, the vote for 16
year-olds, the end of gun violence, and to avert the end of the world by
unilaterally eliminating the United States’ carbon footprint. And, that is only the beginning.
They promise that us ordinary
folks will not have to pay for any of this.
We can have it if we just take the income and property away from the
greedy, exploiting, heartless, undeserving rich and their big businesses.
Here’s what they are
missing. If we do what these nut cases
say, the rich and their businesses will leave, and they will take the jobs they
provide with them. Nothing is free. Somebody has to pay for it. If the wealth creating, capitalist economic
system is driven out of the United States, American Voter, you will be left poor,
wretched, and defenseless. The
government does not create wealth, it squanders it. The government prints money, but it takes a
thriving economy to give it value.
Wise-up America. Socialism is the political philosophy of envy
and covetousness. Go to school. Learn skills you can make a living with. You get out of something what you put into
it. Give your employer a reason to value
your services, and then negotiate for greater rewards. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Stop looking to get something for
nothing. Nobody owes you a living. You have to earn it.
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey,
nor anything that is your neighbor's." (Exodus
20: 17 NKJV)
