Ain’t no free lunch, from Thomas Sowell, RCP:
Once you buy the idea that the government should be a sort of year-around Santa Claus, you have bought the kinds of consequences that follow.
The results are not pretty,
FDR brought Americans the New Deal.
HST gave us:The Square Deal
FDR: The New Deal
JFK: The New Frontier
LBJ: The Great Society
Barack Hussien Obama: The New Reality?
Hat tip: Tim Williams and Jim Geraghty, Campaign Spot.
Source
Picture of the de-dressing:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A man dressed as Santa Claus showed up at a Christmas Eve party at a suburban Los Angeles house and opened fire with a handgun, killing three people and wounding two,