By David Galland in Casey's Daily Dispatch:

The list of what we as humans will accept, if someone proves willing to offer it up, is literally endless. Of course, some of the items on the list make more sense than others, but that’s not the point. The point is that, like sea turtles or red-bottomed baboons, we human apes have certain characteristics, including a sufficient degree of intelligence to accept a freebie when one is proffered.

Of course politicians are well aware of this, and so spend most of their time in office deliberating the latest scheme to provide the public with something for nothing. They do so for the votes their nature tells them they need to stay in power past the next election, and they do so without regard to the fact that they are leading the country on to an escalator of endless demands.

Over time, this demand for ever more in a democracy becomes entrenched and ultimately leads to the sort of situation that has brought the United States, and many other aging democracies, to the point of near ruin.

…Now, I’m just one of 307 million citizens of these United States. And the evidence at hand strongly suggests my views on how to return the U.S. economy to health – by slashing the size of government and its many handouts to the bone – would be unwelcomed by the majority.

Thus, as the old Arabic saying goes, my views are akin to “The little fox who barks while the caravan passes by in the night.”

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