Written by Chip Wood
August 5, 2011
A friend of mine was trying to explain to his children the significance of the debate going on over what to do about our national debt.
He showed them a clip of something you’ve probably seen: the National Debt Clock in New York City. On Monday, the National Debt Clock said our national debt was more than $14.4 trillion, and it said each family’s share of this monstrous total was $122,303.
Steve tried to explain the situation this way to his kids: “Who would you vote for? Someone who promises to give you lollipops every day at school, even though he can’t afford them? Or someone who says he needs to take your desks away because we can’t afford to pay for them?”
His eight-year-old piped up, “I vote for the lollipops guy!”
And of course, that is the problem. Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the redistribution of wealth the official policy of the United States, a majority of our citizens have been voting for “the lollipops guy” a majority of the time. We’ve reached the shocking situation in which more of our citizens receive something from government than contribute to paying the bills.
CONTINUED: http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/chip-wood/8475-a-lesson-in-debt-qi-vote-for-the-lollipops-guyq
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