Thursday, 21 October 2021 13:31

From the Publisher's Desk: Why The Free Stuff Isn’t Free

By Chad Beatty | Editorials
From the Publisher's Desk: Why The Free Stuff Isn’t Free

*I borrowed this from a fellow Publisher in New Hampshire, hope you enjoy.

With President Biden pushing a multi-trillion-dollar spending package, I thought we should be reminded why free stuff isn’t free.

The folks who are getting the free stuff, don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff, can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff. And, the folks who are paying for the free stuff, want the free stuff to stop, and the folks who are getting the free stuff, want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now…The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff, have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So…the people who are GETTING the free stuff, have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff, by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff, and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff. Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have to change this. Failure to change spells the end of the United States as we know it.

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