Please spread this message liberally to the next generation. They need all the help they can get with what they have in front of them. Too many tricks ahead, very few treats from what I can see.
If you are not teaching them now, when will they learn?
Halloween is here and why should we waste such a great teaching moment for younger Americans?
Our schools all too often fill our children's heads with liberal, progressive mush. It occurs to me that we could teach them a few lessons about economics, capitalism and freedom using Snickers, Starbursts and Swizzlers.
How about a lesson on taxation? When the children bring home their candy haul on Halloween night and spread it out on the family room floor, take 50% of it away before they get their hands on it. They need to understand the burden of taxation. They need to see first hand that when they work hard they also have a "partner" that wants to share in everything they work for-GOVERNMENT. You need to explain to your child that their "partner" is always hungry. It has an insatiable appetite for taxes (and spending).
Pre-Tax Candy Haul
After-Tax Candy Haul
How about a lesson on the redistribution of wealth? One of your children doggedly rings doorbells on two additional streets after your other child calls it quits because they are tired and cold. As a result, they have 40 more pieces of candy in their bag when they get home. When you see that they have more goodies, immediately tell them that it is not fair that they have more than their sibling.
They will invariably protest and say that they earned it by doing more than their sister. You then tell them that they could never eat all of that candy by themselves anyway and they are just being selfish. What is really unfair is not giving their fair share.
For good measure you can also point out that they did not build the sidewalk they walked on, nor the streetlights they walked under or the houses they rang the doorbells at to get the candy.
How about a lesson on regulation that would make Mayor Bloomberg proud? If your children happen to get one of those large Snickers bars instead of the little bite size ones prohibit them from eating it. It is not healthy to take in all of those calories at one time so ban the large size and mandate that they limit themselves to small sizes.
King Size- Banned
Regular Size- Limited Availability
Enjoy the Fun Size!
The sad truth is that the trick is really going to be on them when they realize that they are responsible for $17 trillion of debt. Big Bird seems to be in hiding right now but Elmo tells it like it is to our kids.
The chart below compares per capita money income to national debt per capita. Money income is what most people would consider money that they can spend-wages and salaries, interest, dividends, Social Security payments, welfare payments, disability income, etc. It does non include capital gains, food stamps, withdrawals from bank deposits, employer contributions for health care from employers, etc.
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Credit: Mark McHugh, Across the Street
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Data released just last week (10/24/13) by the U.S Census Bureau indicates that for the 4th Quarter, 2011 there were actually more Americans receiving means-tested government benefits (welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, subsidized housing) than had full-time year-round jobs. There were only 101.7 million workers in full-time, year-round jobs compared to 108.6 million Americans on some form of welfare assistance.
Those children have plenty of future bills to pay and they can add Obamacare to that list. It might be wise for the kids to save any nickels or dimes they pick up along the way because they are going to need it in 10-15 years. Their good health and money is going to be needed to subsidize the elderly and sick in the Obamacare risk pools. The entire program does not work without these young people paying much more than they will use in health care services. Yet another trick on them.
Those children have plenty of future bills to pay and they can add Obamacare to that list. It might be wise for the kids to save any nickels or dimes they pick up along the way because they are going to need it in 10-15 years. Their good health and money is going to be needed to subsidize the elderly and sick in the Obamacare risk pools. The entire program does not work without these young people paying much more than they will use in health care services. Yet another trick on them.
If these are not enough tricks for them to comprehend, look at the additions to debt over the last four years compared to the growth in total Gross Domestic Product you still get math that even a 5th grader knows does not compute.
Since President Obama has been in office the United States has borrowed over $2 for every $1 in economic growth that has taken place.
Jan, 2009 Oct, 2013
Federal Debt $10.6 trillion $17.1 trillion +$6.5 trillion
Gross Domestic Product $13.9 trillion $16.7 trillion +$2.8 trillion
Source: FoxNews.com from Treasury Department and Bureau of Economic Analysis
Enjoy Halloween and keep the kids safe. Let them enjoy the treats. There are way too many tricks facing them in the future. After all, a little chocolate makes everything better!
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