The little red hen and the lesson learned

[capt. apathy]

what about the part where the rich pig gets himself elected as gardian of the wheat.  then gives it all to his friends to take on an expidition to another farm.

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by slimm50
Uh...I'm confused. I know the Republicans don't know how to get votes, but I'm also pretty sure the Democrats are anything but fiscally responsible (read "tax and spend").

Tax and spend is more responsible than spending and not taxing.  

I'm all for spending less and taxing less.  In fact, that's what I'd like the government to do more than anything.  But you can't spend and not have a way to pay for it.

[Tarmac]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
How do you figure.  If you "tax and spend" what's to say the govts spending of your money will be any better than YOU spending it.

You're exactly right.

I dont agree with deficit spending myself but I HATE heavier taxes and more social spending even more.

 
We're on the same page here, too.  Cut social spending.  I can spend my money on charity better than a government bureacracy can.  

Point being......If I earn my living I dont want it to go to somone else to lazy to earn there's.  If I'm successful in life why should I have to fork over the fruits of my labor to somone who isnt successful in life.   I think that is mostly the point of the whole story.

Yep.  
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Instead of "tax and spend," the popular Democrat approach, or "borrow and spend," the popular Republican one, how about we just spend less?  Oh wait, because as long as the government is spending buttloads of money on people, it can buy their votes with pork projects.  Their power is in their ability to spend our money.  They're not going to give that up, but they'll slowly keep taking more.  

We seem to be on the same page, Gunslinger, except that I don't think that the borrow and spend approach is sustainable.  If our country borrows too much for too long, we get inflation and reduced dollar values.  In that case, who's actually gained anything in the long run?

[beet1e]

Sounds like Britain in the 1970s under the Labour Government. Then Margaret Thatcher came along, and the red hens were allowed to eat the bread they had baked. Those red hens spread the word to the red hens who had left because they didn't like having to give up 83% of the bread they had made. And some of those red hens came back after they found out they would be allowed to keep 75% of the bread they made (up to the first 20,000 loaves or so) and after that could keep 60% of their loaves. Under this new fairer deal, the government received many more loaves than when it tried to be too greedy.

Unfortunately, Tony Blair's government is once again being unfair to red hens, and they are becoming an endangered species.