The arsenic cure

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The cure’s worse’n the disease

Letter to the editor;

When I lived in Guatemala a couple of generations ago, I got intestinal parasites. The cure was to administer arsenic. It worked. The other part of the treatment was to STOP feeding me arsenic at the appropriate time.

Now, it may possibly be that at some time or other it was beneficial to the nation for the government to throw money around. The trouble is, the politicians LIKED that and did it again and again. More and more. When it made the economy worse instead of better, they reasoned that they just hadn’t thrown enough money at it.

Now we are seeing this idiocy balloon into enormous proportions. They are treating the patient with arsenic, AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN TO STOP!

It is impossible to tell what is in the mind of a politician that he or she would do such an obviously evil thing. It is likewise impossible to tell what is in the mind of the people to allow them to do such a thing.

H. K. Menken said that government is a fantasy by which everyone expects to live off of everyone else. That might be at the root of the problem.

If that is the case, then as Pogo said, “We has met the enemy, and he is us”.

It is enough to make reasonable people think that when God said, “Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor’s,” He might have known what He was talking about.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona