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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