Advise from Poor me

In the spirit of Poor Richard’s Almanac, I present foods for thought.

"When the gap between the ideal and the real becomes too wide, the system breaks down." Hint: The hope for change presented by Barack Obama and Hellary’s village to take care of the children and adults, represent gaps between their fantasy worlds and the practical.

"If you don’t change the cultural base, then if one form of despotism dies, another will emerge." Hint: Local and federal governmental control of our lives in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism could be pragmatically replaced by socialism just as a mafia often replaces a failed state.

"Profit measures success because it reflect peoples’ preferences. Hint: The greater the financial reward for a business, the more likely the common good is served. Oil companies that provide gasoline for cars, pizza parlors that provide convenience meals, NASCAR and the NFL (and pornography) that outsource recreational athleticism, will never be out of fashion.

"Penalizing the wealthy while giving the poor an excuse to be poor supports injustice for all. Hint: A 5% penalty for filing income tax returns late; a .05% penalty for not paying at all.

"Sharks only move in for the kill when they can taste the fear of their victims." Hint: Why did the Islamic terrorists feel emboldened to take down the twin towers, the Pentagon and a third target on September 11, 2001? Answer: years of appeasement and weakness in the face of a crusading enemy.

Charity and mental health might begin at home, but how long do they last? Hint: A nonprofit company pays up to $50 of adoption costs when people 60 or older adopt a cat or dog from specially selected animal shelters. Yet, no concern is given to what happens if the senior dies, tires of or can’t continue to care for Fluffy or Fido.