WE JUST CAN’T AFFORD IT!

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“We just can’t afford it!” Not long ago, every American child heard that, at one time or another, in the home in which he or she was raised. “We just can’t afford it!” It may have been a new car, or two weeks at the beach, or the new flat-panel TV screen. Every family knew there were times you had to do without. Every father and mother has had to disappoint their kids with those words. Why is it that what parents do many times a year politicians , seem incapable of doing: saying no.

How many times in the last decade have the political leaders of either party stood up and declared, “No, we cannot afford this.” The White House has conceded that the deficits over the next l0 years will total $3.5 trillion more than they had reported just months ago.

When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over.

“Remember,” said John Adams, “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

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Published:
09.23.21 2:01
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