Okay, today I’m going to be lazy and post some quotes — because I think they are pure and brilliant truth.
These are two quotes by Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts (Las Vegas) taken from a recent interview with Chris Wallace on Fox:
“Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization’s history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. The only thing that creates an increased standard of living is giving someone a job, the demand for their labor — whether it’s you and I, Chris, or anybody else. The people that are paying the price for this juggernaut of federal spending are the middle class and the working class of America.”
“…And soaring rhetoric and great speeches with or without a teleprompter aren’t going to change the truth, and the truth is: The biggest enemy, the biggest obstacle that working middle-class America has is government spending.”
If only people could “get” this. I’m afraid that by the time people in America wake up to the truth (if they ever do), it’s going to be too late.
I used to believe that inside of every human heart there is an innate desire to be free.
I used to think that each one of us wanted to be in control of our destiny and potential — to fly with the glorious wings of liberty that our forefathers and brave soldiers bought for us with enormous sacrifice and with their lives.
But today, we’re a nation of infants — liberal, dependent, foolish, perfectly content with endless regulations, controls, systems, and laws. The cost of which is huge! It limits our potential and breaks our spirit.
There is no freedom in this. The government doesn’t fears us (like our founding fathers intended), it runs us. And the most abhorrent thing about that is: no one cares.
But I do.
Great article. I completely agree with you.
It is very sad to watch.
I have often thought about people in far away countries who can’t leave their situation or do much about their circumstances. I have spent a great deal of time wondering what it would have been like to live in a place where we could not get Ethan great health care, and the different pathway his life would have taken. Or lack their of, of life that is. Just because he might have been born in Zimbabwe or Ethiopia.
I have hurt for those who suffer due to things beyond their control. Due to their tyrannical government. Selfish, power hungry people who take what they want and don’t blink, when it comes to others.
It had never occurred to me that I might live in such a place. All of my choices taken away. All of my hard work, down the drain. All of my options — gone.
It’s a sick realization.