Monday, January 19, 2015

Hey - It’s Not Your Birthday!

It’s MY birthday – time for more FREE STUFF!
It used to be that the Birthday Boy (or Girl) was the one who got presents on their birthday. They’d throw a party and invite their friends, and everyone would bring a gift to honor the special day AND NOT EXPECT ANYTHING FOR THEMSEVES (other than a little fun with each other, of course.)
Something went wrong a few decades ago – when we started throwing birthday parties for our son, we found out about GOODIE BAGS. Oh, no, you can’t invite children to your child’s birthday party unless you’re prepared to give the invitees presents, too.
What do we blame this on? In traditional Hobbit birthday celebrations, the birthday Hobbit would give gifts to his guests; Look - I know Tolkien’s books were among the most popular works in history, but that wasn’t anywhere near universal saturation. I know plenty of those parents (and certainly their kids) hadn’t read it, so I don’t think that’s what caused it. 
I think it was part and parcel of the DON’T INJURE THEIR LITTLE EGOS movement – you know, the same one that says there can’t be winners and losers – everyone gets a ribbon or a trophy or a present JUST FOR BEING HERE, and if they can’t have something, well, it’s not because they didn’t EARN it - someone must be keeping it from them.
These people grow up and think they’re entitled to whatever they want for FREE. They’re in a store and decide they want something, so they just take it. Either they don’t know (or most likely DON’T CARE) that their shoplifting is paid for – not by the store, but by the other customers; the prices we have to pay (those of us that do) has shoplifting losses built into it.
They think they can get FREE medical care – someone else will pay for their insurance, their medicine, their doctors. They DON’T CARE that the money is coming out of someone else’s pocket – sometimes it’s even someone they know.
I remain baffled to this day why these people were unaffected in 2012 by the simple argument that our country can’t continue to spend money we don’t have because WE ARE STEALING IT FROM OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. I would think that would make a difference and change some minds, but maybe they don’t care about their own children, either. (I’m probably being unfair – I’m sure they’re busy teaching their own kids how to get their own free stuff even as I write this.)
Our Redistributor-In-Chief’s latest contribution is FREE COLLEGE FOR ALL! He just has to make sure to make those evil rich people pay for it.
People used to joke about politicians promising A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT. The politician would get elected, and then he’d fulfill his promise. Funny – why does the chicken in your pot look like the one that used to be in mine? Except it looks smaller; it’s missing a drumstick. Oh, look what the new King’s chomping on…
Ever wonder how people who’ve done nothing but run for public office all their lives seem to become rich?  
There is no FREE LUNCH; we all pay for it in the end.

Just saying…
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