Government cheese: lines forming soon

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RON HART: Government cheese: lines forming soon

November 10, 2008 08:45:00 AM

Bumper sticker on Southern car

The writer is a Southern libertarian who writes a weekly column about politics and life. His e-mail is RevRon10@aol.com.

I will keep my freedom, my guns, and my money -You can keep the "Change.".

This presidential election is mercifully over. There is something inherently corrupt about two candidates raising a billion dollars to get a job that pays $390,000 a year. The process is too long and painful, and I think Hillary Clinton and John Edwards will start campaigning for the 2012 Iowa Caucus this week.

I suggest that we decide our leader by a duel. It would be short, sweet, decisive and would greatly reduce any future bellyaching by the loser. It would also be uncorrupted by campaign money's influence...

...I guess it began in 1999, when Congress made Fannie Mae a social program and the American dream of owning a home became a right. The "right " of health care is next; what could possibly go wrong with government involvement there?

Where you fall in this category depends entirely on your definition of two words: need and greed. "Greedy" is what 49 percent of the people are who want to keep more of the money that they earn; "need" is the excuse of the other 51 percent for taking more of that money.

It is tragic that our capitalistic and free society, long the envy of the world, is now heading down the road to socialism.

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http://www.newsherald.com/articles/ron_69495___article.html/cheese_soon.html

I'm not sure if there are any government commodity programs today.  IIRC, they no longer buy excess agricultural products and donate them to the less fortunate.