Originally Posted by R_H_Clark
This is exactly what happens when you give the government too much money!


A country will always be run either for its best and brightest or for its worst and weirdest.

Their own natural ability takes care of the best and brightest and a nation run for them requires a very little government.

Their own natural inability makes the worst and weirdest a huge burden and a nation run for them requires a very big government.

Those in government are no less its dependents than those on its programs or others under its protection.

If we demanded that we cease running America for its worst and weirdest, some drug addicts might OD and some drug cops might starve; but the rest of us would be more free, more prosperous, and geezers could garden any damn way that they pleased.