You hear a lot of talk these days about mortgaging our children's future. And it's true that we're now spending what we don't have to create a nanny state that we don't need.
But as we worry about the future, we must also remember the past.
We have lived with comfort and luxuries for so long that many of us have forgotten where they come from. We've become so spoiled by ready access to good food, quality heath care, great homes, new cars, terrific colleges that we think of them now as things every American is entitled to.
But they're not entitlements. They are quality products that are a direct byproduct of our free market.
Without a competitive, free market, these products wouldn't be as good or as available as they are. And the creative and constructive powers of the free market itself would not be possible without the enormous sacrifices made over centuries by generations who built upon the freedoms we inherited.
To give up even some of those freedoms now for the sake of the failed promises of the nanny state would be to kill the goose that laid all those golden eggs. It would also dishonor the memory of those who gave all so that we could have so much.
We would not only be mortgaging our children's future, but squandering the legacy of our heroic past.
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