Paradise on a platter

Politicians promise each American his dream. The rich will pay for it so what’s the point of trying to be rich. What irony! We have three colorful candidates still in the race who offer an extravagant dinner platter of benefits and aid. Candidates have and will continue to offer more of everything beyond the current power and purse of government. What is astonishing given their premises, is that they stop where they do. Why not offer furniture, clothing, stoves and refrigerators, books and musical instruments along with their present presents to millions of people? Housing is already covered even though the housing crisis has evolved from bad credit loans and risky borrowers. Our present mortgage crisis - real or imagined - will not absent itself from the media airways. Education is covered because anyone can obtain a student loan with deferred payments. Utilities are assisted by HEAP for heating and cooling bills, and food stamps are available to households even with two working parents. How can life ever go wrong? Oh wait, we also have Community Action Commissions to assist with cooking and food preservation via appliance vouchers. Who will need Churches and Goodwill Industries for clothing or furniture emergencies when the government provides backup? If a government pork subsidy now provides for free golf lessons - you get the picture.

Once upon a time, when politicians made promises, a few men of little faith used to inquire timidly where the money was coming from. Such questions are now laughingly waived aside with the simple answer that we just put more taxes on the big corporations and the rich. This is how our ‘mush-for-brains’ government leaders think. The tax incentives that are in the mail for May only benefit the poor and many citizens who did not pay taxes. Wealthy individuals do not benefit. Thank goodness you say, I’m poor.

The newly minted Easy Play lottery games perfectly illustrate thinking from mushy- brained politicians that mixup the mental magic of a Mephistopheles with the physical repulsion of a Medusa. Citizens are encouraged to have fun with Easy Play to "benefit schools" that have already been proven to be bureaucratic failures and financial money pits. No linguist is needed to unravel the deception in the words "fun" or "benefit schools." Gambling is approved so the state can legally impoverish ignorant individuals (having fun) who they then can assist with government programs designed to alleviate poverty.

The reality is that we cannot distribute more than we produce. Total production - even American production - is limited only by the imagination. Laissez faire economics ( from the French let do) meaning let each person make his own way and do his own thing, produces results. Private enterprise produces, not government or bureaucracy. A liberal company like Starbucks won’t even allow ‘laissez faire’ on one of their gift cards. A liberal government under a Hillary or a Barak or in some cases, under a McCain, will stifle traditional American self-sufficiency.

The government cannot give anything to A without first or ultimately taking it from B. When the candidates say they will give federal aid to states or they will "not forget Southern Ohio," they imply that the federal government has nothing to give that doesn’t first come from the people (those who pay taxes). This is not the most important election in history unless Americans realize that their futures are at stake. The illusion of an urgency for government intervention is being marketed and sold to the public. If government promises, why shouldn’t we beg? Yet how often are our plates really empty that we must beg government for a chicken leg? Daddy Government is only going to reply, "Sorry my dear voting child, you must kill the chicken and bring it to me first." Now we know the chicken is not really a chicken; all is not as it seems in politics, love and war. The chicken represents your laissez faire rewards in the form of money, self-sufficiency and ambition. Paradise is not served up on a government platter.