Show Consider the children It is they who must pay JUST MAN in his and his children are blessed after THAT MAY HAVE BEEN the case in days of the wise but it just isn't popular in these days especially in these United States of ours Instead of walking in We insist on riding in the most luxurious style and of passing the debt for our luxury on to our children and their AND WHAT WE ARE RIDING is the bubble of federal aid for that and We keep that bubble inflated with a constant increase of the federal debt and a constant decrease in the value of the dollar measured in terms of today's living BUT SOMEWAY THE BUBBLE is going to And then SINS OF THE FATHERS will be visited upon the that's WE MAKE a great fuss and perhaps about the constantly increasing amount and seriousness of juvenile delinquency and crime BUT HOW CAN WE PARENTS and other adults look any youngster squarely in the face when we think of our own crime of saddling on them a public debt to pay for the things we are unwilling to pay for ourselves Most of in one way or are on the federal If the government were honest and paying its way as it that would mean only that we are taking the cost of our benefits from our neighbors and from sending the whole thing back to Washington to keep a large army of federal employees on fat payrolls who then send a small part back to us of the money we send AND WE CONTINUE TO FLOAT and nde on our deceptive bubble of federal imagining that some good Santa Claus back in Washington is sending the aid to us for free And we continue to saddle more and more debt on our children to pay for our bubble IT'S HIGH TIME WE do five DEMAND IMMEDIATE in including the getting rid of probably half the army of those hundreds of thousands who are doing little if any useful DEMAND THAT THE MONEY thus saved be applied to a reduction of the national DEMAND THAT NO NEW federal aid programs be undertaken until that debt is reduced DEMAND THAT OUR lawmakers stop dangling the bait of tax reduction before us until the debt is RESOLVE TO ACCEPT SOME present including more walking with integrity and less riding expensive so that our actions will show our children and their children that we really have their welfare at heart and that they will he blessed after rather than cursed with the monstrous debt of our extravagance and The Ephraim Enterprise |