Remember this?
"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money"
-former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Here’s the update, courtesy of Congressman Paul Ryan as he gives a sterling example of a slapdown to Chris Matthews on Hardball:
Matthews shrewdly asks Ryan why he thinks he can persuade voters that they can no longer have something for nothing when nobody else has before. And for a moment we catch a glimpse of a much more formidable Chris Matthews, a man who seems to have come to liberalism in part because he’s seen conservatism fail to sell. And the congressman’s riposte is simple:
‘Chris, it will sell now because the voters have no choice. The party’s over and sooner or later everyone who isn’t brain-dead has to see that.’ Entitlements have drained the treasury dry. An entire generation has blown its wad and doesn’t even have enough kids to borrow from. And as any who’s ever shaken his wallet and seen only old ATM receipts flutter out of it, the message is signally clear. Gotta get back to work.
