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If Conservatives Can’t Compete with ‘Santa,’ Then They Should Quit
(Before It's News)
Everyone loves Santa. He brings gifts. No one wants to tell the kids that maybe it’s time for Santa to rein in the outlays. That’s a real bummer. And with a seemingly unlimited debt credit card why be “responsible” anyway? Let the good times roll.
Sorry wrong holiday.
Play Stations, new bikes, and welfare for all! Debt has no consequences! Hooray!!!
But what if we got MORE if Santa never showed up? A lot more. (Of course then “Santa” doesn’t get to hand out the gifts and Governm…er…Santa wouldn’t like that.)
(From Real Clear Markets)
While Shapiro is correct in saying conservatives need to stop promising the proverbial plot on the moon since voters hate “being lied to,” he misses that a small government message means they don’t need to lie. Getting right to the point, for politicians to promise spending cuts is for politicians to BE Santa Claus…
…Thinking about all of this, it’s not unreasonable to say that since the progressive movement took flight in the early 20th century (as Shapiro alludes), and with it government spending, the American people (and by extension, the rest of the world) missed out on trillions in spending that would have cured cancer and heart disease, that would have rendered the internet and smartphones dated by now, and that would have us riding around the country and world in self-flying private jets. Readers can laugh about the latter, but it’s much more realistic today than travel by air was over 100 years ago.
Would we have achieved all that’s mentioned, and perhaps more, without government spending? We’ll never know. Sadly. But what this will hopefully remind conservatives is that when politicians spend, they’re not being nice or Santa like. They’re taking from us now, and robbing us of a much more abundant future in the process.
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/
Source: http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2017/03/if-conservatives-cant-compete-with-santa-then-they-should-quit/
