"Trick or treat"

31 October 2008
Tonight the young at heart will embark on making their way to every home they can in the hopes that they will receive a scrumptious treat while enthusiastically proclaiming “Trick or treat!” Of course, those residences that are on watch will greet each guest with smiles, opened doors and willingly treats.

There is something about all this that reminds me of someone’s threatened economic “equality.”

No matter how you word it, taking from the rich and giving it to the poor sounds good in fairy tales, to communistic regimes and some to Democratic ideologies. However, to the rest of us it smacks of a Halloween threat. I don’t know about you but when some politician proposes that Washington or any other government agency plans on showing up at my work, residence and/or pocketbook I find it more of a trick than a treat.

Now, if you voted in favor of someone who proposes this type of “distributing” of YOUR wealth then YOU shouldn’t be surprised when YOU have to give more “treats” than YOU want. I admit that I don’t mind a few treat-seekers showing up on a pre-announced, no-harm visit. I don’t mind the tramping across the lawn really that much either (why they can’t use the sidewalk is another study in human behavior). What I do mind are those who arrive and demand more than I want to give. A little candy once a year isn’t going to break my budget but that is because I don’t plan on feeding, housing, insuring, educating, and raising everybody else’s family who shows up. Common sense tells us that unless I, (yes, I do mean “I”, me, myself, my work-and-earn-it-self) maintain a budget that I chose then it will not be long before my desire to maintain my welcome-ability decreases significantly. In fact, show up at my home demanding more than I want to give and I will stop wanting to give anything to anybody all together. Let me be perfectly honest, I will become defensive against handing out treats at all. Eventually, you’ll hear me yell, “Hey, get off my lawn!”

OK, I feel better now.

So tonight the “Trick or treat” will be heard across this land and most of us will smile. Yet, Tuesday night after everybody votes unless people use common sense we are all going to be paying a lot more than any home owner can afford.

Eventually, The Reaper is going to hand in his final report to Someone higher. Until then I can’t help but wonder if God Almighty doesn’t just sadly shake his head as some people trick others into calling this a treat.
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