Lefties Go Home!

I'm not trying to be hateful or mean. I'm just giving all you liberals who want the government to take care of you from cradle to grave some helpful advice: move back home. Mom probably still has your room ready.

Do you want to know that someone will be there to take care of all your needs? Move back home!

Tired of having to work every day and worry about your bills? Move back home!

Wondering where your next meal will come from? Move back home!

Are the responsibilities of adulthood bringing you down? Not enough time left in the day to party hardy? Then move back home!

We human beings have short memories. We tend to look at our present tribulations in life and pine nostalgically for the "good old days" while conveniently forgetting that they were never really that good either.

It's tough being an adult. Life is hard. Things often don't go as we had planned. Often we struggle, and fail, and sometimes we hit the wall. Wake up, boys and girls, this is life in the real world - not always fun, not always easy - just reality.

So when I advise you lefties to move back home, and save the rest of us the trouble of redesigning our entire system of government to take care of you, I want you to think about what that would really mean.

First, you have to remember why you ever moved away from home in the first place.

Sure, it was nice to have a roof over your head, and three squares a day, and mom doing the ironing and cleaning. Sometimes, if you caught him in a good mood, you could hit up the old man for an extra twenty to put some gas in the tank. Yeah, life was sweet: you knew that all your needs would be taken care of by good old mom and dad. So why did you ever leave?

Ah, now it's coming back to you...remember how mom insisted you come home by midnight...all that nagging about cleaning up your room...dad giving you those lectures and saying things like "As long as you're living in my house you'll live by my rules"...how your parents were always interfering with your personal life...how tired you got of always having to tell them where you were going and when you would be home...remember how much you looked forward to moving out someday and becoming INDEPENDENT?

Yes, dear lefty friends, that is what you have forgotten: your desire for independence. And that independence is what you are getting ready to sacrifice to the Nanny State that you are so intent on creating in the USA.

In the liberal mind, the answer to every problem known to man is the same: more government control. Trouble with the car companies? Let the government take them over. Instability in the financial markets? We need the government to take over banks and insurance companies. Health care costs getting out of control? Natch, we need socialized medicine.

Whatever the problem, the solution is more government.

As we continue to turn over more decision making to an ever-growing federal bureaucracy, we incrementally give more control over our lives to Big Brother. One day we will wake up and wonder why we aren't free anymore.

The plain fact is that we cannot live as free and independent citizens if we refuse to accept the responsibility for taking care of ourselves. Whoever is taking care of you is going to have the ability to tell you what to do. Whether it is your parents, or the government, whoever is paying the bills gets to make the rules.

One obvious difference is, at least our parents actually cared about us, and they were taking care of us with their own money. When the government is in charge of our lives, not only does it NOT love us, it takes away our own money so that it can pay our bills and tell us what to do. We will, in effect, be financing our own servitude.

Personally, I like being independent. That's why I moved away from home. That's why I thank God every day that I live in this great republic of ours. I want my grandchildren to enjoy the same blessings of liberty that my grandparents handed down to me.

So please, don't think I'm being mean when I say, "Lefties go home!" If you want to be treated like a child, that is your business. Just leave the rest of us out of it.