Kids have a simplistic view of the world. Surprised? What about adults who talk like kids? Maybe, maybe not.
Read about Kirsten Gillibrand’s latest giveaway. She couples free community college with community service (?) – more of the latter and more of the former. Then, she throws in the word “Investment” as some kind of loopy justification for the scheme. (See here)
Some adults become kids as soon as they step into a race for high political office. Many in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes have been unrestrained in their use of the word “free”. The “free” word is copiously used in front all manner of things: college, student loans/debt, health care, racial reparations, etc. To a kid, all things are free. Kids and Democratic politicos either don’t know or don’t care that it ain’t free for mom and dad and the taxpayer, the equivalent of mom and dad in the budgetary calculus.
Then, the adult power-hungry status seekers combine the “free” word with “investment” somewhere further along in the demagoguery. Do the words go together? No. The one contradicts the other. Understand “investment” to mean that someone is being forced to pay, therefore the dispatching of “free”. Thus, the reality: somebody gets skinned so somebody else gets a goodie.
Why we elect people who talk like 5-year-olds is a mystery to me.
RogerG