In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Kipling, The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The ongoing debacle that is ObamaCare just keeps rolling on:
Go here to Washington Wire to read the rest. People who were just fine with ObamaCare robbing Peter to pay Paul are learning, to their chagrin, that they are in the Peter category not in the Paul category, and boy are they ticked! Cue Ben Franklin:
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
Just the gift that keeps on goosing, I mean giving!
Just in case the link doesn’t work, I’m trying to point you to today’s WSJ and the editorial by Marco Rubio:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303985504579205743008770218.html?mod=ITP_opinion_0
Yes, We Can!
Approximately 4,200,000 Americans lost their health b/c of ObamaCare.
Hope and change!
Social justice!!!!!
Suppose you were a liberal. And, suppose you were an idiot. But, I repeat myself.
When I see this post headline I think it must be something to do with Pope Francis. He has discovered he is Peter, the rock upon which… or he has discovered that we are all Peter, or…
Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Voluntary charity is a virtue practised by the body of people called the church. Involuntary charity is a vice called extortion.
Why do you think the great Sci-Fi writer Robert Heinlein called thieves ” Freelance Socialists” ?