Politicians bearing gifts
"Beware the Greeks
bearing gifts" was a phrase coined after the Greeks gave a wooden horse
to the victorious Trojans. This phrase
may apply today if the word "politicians" is substituted for
the word "Greeks."
Possibly, you might wonder why anyone should be concerned about
political gifts since that seems to be what politicians do - but consider this:
A Scary Obituary: In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a
Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say
about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy
is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise
the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every
democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always
followed by a dictatorship."
Referring to a "loose fiscal
policy," our nation's national debt is more than $22-trillion. Who is going to pay for that?
Piper's Papers