| Show f r The American Way Paradise I i Fools' Fools By Alfred P. P Haake I Editors Editor's No Note e Alfred Alfredi P. P Haake PhD Ph.D. Mayor Mayon of o Park Rid Illinois is a noted doted Economist Business Consultant t Lecturer a un ge Author 1 As ancient as the story of man is is the tendency Of I himself to avoid responsibility and evade work So s g a and n this tendency that glittering but easily evoked is empty pro pron from the mouths of the unscrupulous can lure even normally I Id sen sible men into the fools fool's para paradise d' d Ise 0 of f something h. h Ing f for or nothing The folly of a fish in biting at a teasing lure only to V be caught on a barbed hook is no greater than the folly of a im yielding to the blandishments of an exploiter or or the eloquence once of i a fool who promises him more than his own labor or desert I can earn e ea for him Indeed one can excuse the fish for failing to know am an anS thing about what is done beyond the surface of the water b but bJ should know better than to fall to the the man prey folly 0 of L Lown h hown own avarice l Force has been a a tremendous factor in history b but ut far m mo I destructive than mere force has been the deceptive ri use of ma manown mangy man own weakness against himself We pity the poor and other Europeans who vho ha hav c succumbed to the impossible promises of unscrupulous or fanatic leaders Yet millions of people in ou our own country yield step I b S step to similar blandishments or believe other falsehoods c ar ant ane things that are not true The others get it Why not we AI Ant Aric they fall j So when the government hands out millions and even bit bil bi billions lions of dollars at the expense of tax-payers tax even the vi have been known to hold out their hands for a share of tl the ili largess Even today many who declaim against government c ontra contro of business economic life at the time favor or same Federal a ato au auto ak to schools because it may relieve their taxes slightly An And d n no long ago an organization went on record as favoring the gov gove em emment ment taking over the peanut crop at high prices in order to ho houp hole c cup up the price while subsidizing lower prices on peanuts for use u h candy and other products There ere are those who vho deliberately close their eyes to govern government ment waste and inefficiency to justify getting back some of t th tlE dollars paid to the government from other states or persons Th Thel seem to think that when a dollar leaves home for Washington Washingto nl has pups on the way and so more dollars can come back home than those which left home for Washington J Exactly the opposite is is true Every dollar spent by the F Fei Fed Federal ed eral Government has to come either directly from the pockets pockets pockets' a aits its citizens or indirectly from those same pockets through the ti mounting horror of inflation In the last analysis the dollar yol j jc t get back from Washington for jar Podunk or any other place e had t I tr come f from ram Podunk or that other place in the first place j And on the way to Washington and again on the way back bad that dollar lost weight It had to pay th the e broker brokerage age of burea bureau burea bureaucracy cracy and the cost of transportation both ways so that every dollar doli that came back was smaller than the dollar which left j I You would have been wiser in many many parts of th tM the country to keep most of your dollars home and pay directly fc fu the work vork you wanted that dollar tc tp do and so get more done b that dollar at home And that includes the schools all the gb Slay arguments to the contrary notwithstanding j II C Anyone who thinks that there is some magic in government iJ bounty or charity to its citi citizens zens is living in a fools' fools paradise lit ft dollars Washington spends on you came out of your own poc pock I e ein in the first place J 1 A wise man once said A fool only the be g inn of his works but a avise wise vise man heed to the end |
