[Midwesterner53]

Something for nothing, a typical democrat pipe dream.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I think Kipling covered this rather well in his "Road Song of the Bandar Log"

Here we sit in a branchy row,

Thinking of beautiful things we know,

Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,

All complete, in a minute or two --

Something noble and grand and good,

Won by merely wishing we could.

Now we're going to -- never mind,

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!