WE ARE ROBBING OUR CHILDREN

From my previous post (various quotes):
“Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors..."
As the video below explains (only in part and very understated), our children will be required to pay for the mass of benefits being dolled out by our government--which must borrow billions each year to maintain those payments, and for the most part, those payments go to pesons other than themselves. Yet, young people today believe that government ought to do more! They have no idea that the cost for all the benefits being distributed by government today will ultimately fall upon them, and the more government spends the more they will be required to repay. It is we parents who are to blame for not educating our children. Government has no resources whatsoever other than those that they take from us citizens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogrl9yC0S50&feature=player_embedded

Have a nice day.

DWD

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“[The national debt] is not just unsustainable, foolish, and a sign of irresponsibility and poor national impulse control. It is theft from our children, and it is immoral. ... Big government is an easier choice than free enterprise. In the short run, it allows us to avoid sacrifice. ... [but] it will saddle our children and grandchildren with crushing debt.”    
-- Arthur C. Brooks, The Road to Freedom

“Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world-straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state. ... The crisis of unfunded obligations is approaching. It won’t be pretty. ... While citizen is set against citizen and citizen against immigrant in a vast system of mutual plunder (and defense against plunder), bureaucracies extend their control and both create and nurture the political constituencies that sustain them.”    
-- Tom G. Palmer, After the Welfare State

“Paradoxically, politicians become more important, have more money to spend, and derive more ego rewards if the economy is believed to work poorly. Bureaucrats may be expected to demand larger budgets when contending with economic insecurity.”

-- Randy T. Simmons, Beyond Politics: the Roots of Government Failure

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth!"  
“Government will always find a need for whatever money it gets.”
“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.”
– Ronald Reagan

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” 

-- Thomas Sowell

WE HAVE ARRIVED!

We were warned, but did not heed...

Have a nice day.

DWD

SINISTER EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT

As explained by Kevin Williamson of the National Review:

...Obama has advanced [overreaching government] without legislative assistance — and, more troubling still, in plain violation of the law. President Obama and his admirers choose to call this “pragmatism,” but what it is is a mild expression of totalitarianism, under which the interests of the country are conflated with those of the president’s administration and his party.

The problems is not simply with President Obama, but it is much larger than that:

...the United States is not going to fall for a strongman government. Instead of delegating power to a would-be president-for-life, we delegate it to a bureaucracy-without-death. You do not need to install a dictator when you’ve already had a politically supercharged permanent bureaucracy in place for 40 years or more. As is made clear by everything from campaign donations to the IRS jihad, the bureaucracy is the Left, and the Left is the bureaucracy. Elections will be held, politicians will come and go, but if you expand the power of the bureaucracy, you expand the power of the Left, of the managers and minions who share Barack Obama’s view of the world. Barack Obama isn’t the leader of the free world; he’s the front man for the permanent bureaucracy, the smiley-face mask hiding the pitiless yawning maw of total politics.

The result is a huge bureauocracy that makes its own, unilaterial decisions about what exactly the law will be, how it is to be enforced, and against whom--all outside of Congressional control and so beyond the reach of voters.

{Quotes extracted from the International Liberty blog.}

Have a nice day.
DWD