
On Giving, Getting, And Government
The Washington Post, now known as the “Bezos Blog,” recently ran an interesting headline: “Retirees receive six times more in federal dollars than young people.” We apologize for the Post, that serves as the news source for the community that receives more federal dollars than young people or old people — namely, what Joe Sobran aptly called “The Hive” — Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” and the insatiable behemoth that it constitutes today. The headline provokes: “Young people, your parents are robbing you blind!” Why? Because, as Washington’s multimillionaire Senator-hero Bernie Sanders insisted in March, we don’t tax the rich enough. You know, those “old people.” So the young must be stoked to envy, to resentment, and to demand reparations. The Sanders coalition that nominated Joe Biden in 2020 demanded total forgiveness of student loans — a payoff made possible by Barack Obama’s crafty expropriation of that multibillion-dollar portfolio several years earlier. But to what “federal dollars” does the Post refer? The hundreds of billions they have

