Swallowing the Fly
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she'll die. At some point, somebody decided that it was the government's job to "fix" the situation. I don't know when it started. Was it the civil war we fought (which was illegal at the time)? Was it the so-called New Deal of 80 years ago (which FDR's unprecedented "use of the authority of government as an organized form of self-help for all classes and groups and sections of our country.")? I don't know, but somehow we decided that individuals, autonomous faith communities, and common sense weren't enough. Somewhere along the way we swallowed the fly. There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. I guess she'll die. At some point, somebody decided our government needed to fix social