The Socialist Big Lie - "incrementalling" itself all over the US - Granite Grok

The Socialist Big Lie – “incrementalling” itself all over the US

More-Free-Stuff-copyIn a post over at The American Thinker labeled The Free Lunch Slide into Socialism, we see the Great Lie of proto-Socialism once again:

New York City’s Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina recently announced the new “Free School Lunch for All” for the big Apple’s public schools. This means that the entire public-school population, some 1.1 million students, will now be provided with free lunches irrespective of family income. Prior to this, approximately 75 percent of the city’s students were getting free lunches. Under this “Free Lunch for All” program, an additional 200,000 students will now be eligible. This will save the just included families about $300 a year as the cost of a school lunch is $1.75.

To the precious few in New York City who worry about the cost of public education, officials say not to fret. This added expenditure won’t adversely affect the school’s budget. It’s “cost-free” to the city as the tab will be paid out of state and federal funds. That’s me and you.


The death of self-responsibility to provide for one’s own and the willingness to ride the wagon being pulled along by others?  Just wait and see what happens when the wagon that can never stop hits either the uphill in which the remaining pullers can’t handle or worse, the downslope in which the wagon careens out of control because the producers can’t stop it.

Free lunches, free sidewalks (my hamlet’s infamous “Sidewalk to Nowhere”) free healthcare, free cell phones, free daycare, free housing, free needles (and free hits of Narcan – multiple times in some cases), free transportation….freedom from stigma and “offensive words.”  All are “freedom from capitalism” even as they depend on capitalism to generate the wealth for “free.”.

And in this case, the freedom to Lie and the freedom to take from others to support that Lie.  And in doing so, Freedom dies a wee bit more from the death of 10 million cuts.  Hey, just another cuppa joe to add to the tanker trunks we’re hauling right behind each and every one of us.

Eat, drink and be merry – it’s on somebody else’s tab!  And “free,” right?  Just forget about that pesky thing call $20 Trillion of a National Debt – done deal?

Wagons ho!

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