New Poll: 50% of Americans believe in Santa Claus

 

 

     A poll done on Tuesday delivered some very good news for our retail stores this Christmas.  The poll revealed that 50% of Americans believe in Santa Claus.  That's right Virginia!  There IS a Santa Claus after all only he does not reside at the North Pole and he does not ride a red sleigh pulled by 8 reindeer.  Instead Santa Clause now resides in a large white building on Pennsylvania avenue in Washington DC and he doesn't limit his gifts to just good little boys and girls.  He gives gifts to all of his constituents who voted for him and coal (the clean variety) for those who did not.  He also doesn't need to carry a large red sack over his shoulder and deliver them on one night a year.  Instead, this Santa Claus delivers all year long and his gifts are handed out by elves who work (if you want to call it "work") in unemployment offices and welfare offices across our land handing out free money and food stamps for all who "need" them.   He can also hand out electronic gift cards to the banks using the Federal Reserve through Qualitative Easing (QE1,2,3...) so he doesn't have to use printing presses to print REAL money and get his fingers dirty with all the ink. 

   Yes America now believes in Santa Claus. 

They believe that all these free gifts are all payable by taxing the rich, but little do they know that if they confiscated 100% OF ALL THE WEALTH (not just their income but also emptied their bank accounts and confiscated all their assets) we would only be able to pay for 1 year of our national expenditures and after that there would be nothing left over for the next years expenditures.

   But as we the "grown-ups" know , there is NO Santa Claus.  We know this because it is US who pays the credit card bills in January for all the crap we lavished on our children on December 25th. We feel the pain of cutting back on things we like to do and places we like to go to so we can make those payments (with interest) and so it is with our country.  The children now out-number the grown-ups and they want Christmas to be extended and made a year-round holiday.   The children voted and Santa Claus won and like our own situations at home, we the grown-ups will be footing the bill for generations to come.  There is little that the other side can do other than wait for the bag of goodies to run out.  After all, how can the other side compete with Santa Claus?   If you gave a child a choice between Santa Claus giving him free gifts or him making his own toys, what do you think they will choose?   No matter how eloquently you speak of the feeling of satisfaction you will get by making your own toys and how proud you would feel about them, the child will always choose "free gifts".  So what do we do?

   To me the answer is education.

    I am sorry to say this, but it's time we stop teaching our children about jolly old St. Nick.  Maybe we need to teach our children reality rather than mythology.  We need to educate our children about taxes and spending.  We need to indoctrinate them on the values of making things and producing rather than sucking on the teet of the government.  We need to teach them about freedom and free-enterprise.  We need to show them that you cannot solve all the worlds problems and develop a totally "fair" society. We need to teach the the evils of Socialism and that any one who can "give you everything" can also therefore "take everything you have".  

   The church as well MUST take a stand and be involved in this education as well.  Especially the Catholic Church.  For too long the Catholic Church has sided with Democrats on "social issues" (even though they violently disagree on abortion) and now finds itself at odds with the party it once promoted.  Now it is time for them to change sides and help educate the immigrants who come here (most of whom are Catholic) on the problems of the Democratic Party and on what it means to be an American.  For too long the churches have been silent, thinking it to be a "sin" to speak "evil" against the government even though the government speaks evil of them.  THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!

   Unless we do this, we will doom our children to a bankrupted country (just like the USSR in the 90's)  and faced with a choice of either crushing levels of taxes or a NEW CONSTITUTION and a NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT (and trust me that new government will not promote a free society either).