Let us suppose that a robber takes out his gun one night and proceeds to rob a dozen people along one side of a street, taking from them all of the cash they are holding.
Then he walks down the other side of the street and gives a small handfull of the stolen cash to a dozen (apparently) homeless people, keeping half of the proceeds for himself.
After being arrested he pleads with the magistrate, saying "How can I be punished when I did so much good for so many needy people?" He brings in witnesses - the people to whom he gave cash - to testify about how much the money benefitted them, and how much worse off they would be if they hadn't received that cash. Indeed, they tell the magistrate that the robber should be permitted to continue his nightly activities forever, because it does so much good among the needy.
This little vignette is basically the Democrats' Program for America. By force of law, they take money from the productive members of society, then they dole out a tiny portion of it to "those in need," (as they define it). And they keep a large portion of the stolen money to sustain a mountainous bureaucracy of government employees who also "know which side of the bread is buttered." With each new program - no matter how large or small - they create a new constituency of people who are now dependant on Government for some "vital" need (that they managed to fill somehow before the program existed). And they add another small army of bureaucrats to run the program and make sure nobody "cheats."
Listen to the dialog recently about the implementation of "Obamacare." The Democrat politicians from the President on down are all trumpeting the FACT (it can't be argued, actually) that many millions of people will BENEFIT from this program. These are the people who were considered high risk or who had the dreaded "pre-existing conditions," and the people who would have wanted to employ doctors for their routine care but never did because they didn't want to pay for it.
But the politicians artfully omit the FACT that the program is costing EVERYONE ELSE - the tens of millions of people who already have coverage - a lot more in premiums and higher deductibles. They omit the fact that there will now be millions of healthy young people who truly have no need of health insurance, who will be forced to buy it, because (the justification is) a tiny percentage of them will have some medical catastrophe that they will not be able to pay for with their own resources.
Consider also the huge expansion of the Food Stamp rolls. The criteria for receiving food stamps was greatly liberalized during Obama's first term, as a TEMPORARY measure, and now we have twice as many people getting food stamps as there were when Our Beloved President was elected. And the Democrats in Congress tell us that we can't scale back now -even though the program was TEMPORARY - because there are a lot of people now who depend on them.
More people sucking at the Government's capacious teats. More people who know that Democrats are more likely to continue the flow of milk & honey than Republicans.
Who is representing the taxpayers in all of this? Ted Cruz? Anyone else? Could it be those evil "Tea Party" bastards?
Then he walks down the other side of the street and gives a small handfull of the stolen cash to a dozen (apparently) homeless people, keeping half of the proceeds for himself.
After being arrested he pleads with the magistrate, saying "How can I be punished when I did so much good for so many needy people?" He brings in witnesses - the people to whom he gave cash - to testify about how much the money benefitted them, and how much worse off they would be if they hadn't received that cash. Indeed, they tell the magistrate that the robber should be permitted to continue his nightly activities forever, because it does so much good among the needy.
This little vignette is basically the Democrats' Program for America. By force of law, they take money from the productive members of society, then they dole out a tiny portion of it to "those in need," (as they define it). And they keep a large portion of the stolen money to sustain a mountainous bureaucracy of government employees who also "know which side of the bread is buttered." With each new program - no matter how large or small - they create a new constituency of people who are now dependant on Government for some "vital" need (that they managed to fill somehow before the program existed). And they add another small army of bureaucrats to run the program and make sure nobody "cheats."
Listen to the dialog recently about the implementation of "Obamacare." The Democrat politicians from the President on down are all trumpeting the FACT (it can't be argued, actually) that many millions of people will BENEFIT from this program. These are the people who were considered high risk or who had the dreaded "pre-existing conditions," and the people who would have wanted to employ doctors for their routine care but never did because they didn't want to pay for it.
But the politicians artfully omit the FACT that the program is costing EVERYONE ELSE - the tens of millions of people who already have coverage - a lot more in premiums and higher deductibles. They omit the fact that there will now be millions of healthy young people who truly have no need of health insurance, who will be forced to buy it, because (the justification is) a tiny percentage of them will have some medical catastrophe that they will not be able to pay for with their own resources.
Consider also the huge expansion of the Food Stamp rolls. The criteria for receiving food stamps was greatly liberalized during Obama's first term, as a TEMPORARY measure, and now we have twice as many people getting food stamps as there were when Our Beloved President was elected. And the Democrats in Congress tell us that we can't scale back now -even though the program was TEMPORARY - because there are a lot of people now who depend on them.
More people sucking at the Government's capacious teats. More people who know that Democrats are more likely to continue the flow of milk & honey than Republicans.
Who is representing the taxpayers in all of this? Ted Cruz? Anyone else? Could it be those evil "Tea Party" bastards?