Here's an op/ed piece on Census 2000 that's amusing/scary.
http://www.boortz.com/nealznuz.htm
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March 14, 2000
YOUR FAIR SHARE?
by Neal Boortz
I saw another one of those sickening and contemptible Census 2000 commercials on
television last night. This one was possibly the most infuriating of all. It showed a
woman trying to keep a child quiet in a restaurant. You soon realized that it was the
woman’s child and that she was not there as a customer, she was one of the waitresses. Her boss then reprimanded her for bringing her child to work – and she apparently was making some excuse about the cost of child care. Then the announcer warned all the viewers who were having trouble meeting their child care expenses to be sure to fill out the census form so that they could get their "fair share" of government child care funds.
So --- there you have it. The reason we’re running a census is not to properly apportion
members of the House of Representatives among the States, as the Constitution suggests, but rather to make sure that some single mother out there gets her "fair share" of someone else’s money to meet her child care expenses.
Day after day we’re deluged with Census 2000 advertisements on television --- and every single one of them reminds Americans that somehow they have developed a "right" to a "fair share" of someone else’s money.
Tell me, please --- just how do you determine what’s "fair" and not fair when it comes to
using the government as in instrument of plunder. What, exactly, is a "fair share?"
Would it be fair if you used the power of government to take 80 percent of another
person’s property? Probably not. How about 50 percent? Maybe that’s too much too. But what about 10 percent? Well, maybe that’s fair. Trouble is, who decides? Once you have established that one person --- this waitress in the Census 2000 commercial --- has a right to some share of another person’s property, just who sets the figures?
Alexander Tyler warned that a country like ours would destroy itself when the people
learned they could use the ballot box to vote themselves money or other goodies from the government. Well – isn’t it obvious? That’s exactly where we are today! Those people in this country who do not yet understand that the principal function of the Imperial Federal Government is to transfer wealth from someone else’s pocket into theirs are surely learning that lesson now from the Census 2000 ads.
You can hear them now … "Hey, where’s that form. I want my fair share."
I herewith submit this script for a new 10-second radio ad for Census 2000.
Do you want to have a baby but can’t afford to raise one? Do you want to have a cute little baby but you won’t be able to pay for child care? Don’t let money stop you! Have as many as you want. Just be sure to fill out your Census 2000 form so you can get your fair share of someone else’s money to pay the costs of raising the little rascals.
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Taking money from the more-able producers and giving it to the less-able producers via the
Government will, in the end, destroy what's left of this once-great country. This philosophy is so prevalent in the population in general that its momentum will carry it to its bloody, idiotic conclusion.
DAL
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Reading "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," by Ayn Rand, should be required of every politician and in every high school.
GOA, JPFO, PPFC, CSSA, LP, NRA
