For some strange reason the adage “Socialism can only last until it runs out of other peoples money” (Margaret Thatcher) keeps coming up in my mind. I do not know for sure if it is applicable in this instance, as well as Greece, Portugal etc.
I also keep on wondering why it should be up to the Germans to support people in other countries so they can continue with a life style they have become accustomed to. I feel the same way for tax payers in this country, why on earth should my tax Dollar be used to support union people (GM) so they can have a trouble free ride even so many of us have a rough time in this economy.
I am quite sure there may be some experts on Free Republic to correct my faulty thinking and tell me where I went wrong.
You think the Germans have a burden of ungrateful aid recipients you should try to tally up US foreign aid.
Penalize something and you’ll get less of it. Subsidize it and you’ll get more. This applies to tax funded social programs and foreign aid just as well as it does to anything else, and it’s exactly what has occurred.
Leftists have never been able to grasp this simple, basic truism.
Maggie’s still alive. I’d kill for a 15 second commercial which plays the bite of her saying that, and then a fade to her - modern day - saying,
“I do hate being right about such things.”