The American Dream is a varied, elusive dream and can be hopelessly shattered by governmental trickery.
To some, the American Dream may be owning and operating an apple cart and someday buying a modest house with a white picket fence. Still, to others it may be breaking through that infamous glass ceiling and/or becoming a top executive or powerful CEO with an outrageous salary, bonuses and millions of bucks in a retirement package.
Whichever the case, imbedded in the American psyche is the belief that if one is willing to work hard enough, apply God-given talent, ingenuity and inflexible determination, any dream can come true.
But now, the Democrat controlled government has passed HR 1, a 1,075 page bill that spends $790-billion of our grandchildren’s money, (that’s about $735-million per page that not a soul in Congress has read) and controls practically ever aspect of the American economy, moving us ever so close to a socialist nation.
So forget about your dream and any incentive you have of owning and operating an apple cart and someday buying a modest house with a white picket fence, or of breaking through that infamous glass ceiling and/or becoming a top executive or powerful CEO with a outrageous salary, bonuses and millions of bucks in a retirement package, because the government will now tell you how poor or successful you can be by turning your grandchildren’s tax money into a big bag of pork.
As you know, a bag of pork is the same as a pig-in-a-poke. With partial definition by Wikipedia, a pig-in-a-poke would be:
A confidence trick in the Late Middle Ages when meat was scarce but apparently rats and cats were not.
The scheme entailed the sale of a “suckling pig” in a “poke” (bag). The wriggling bag would actually contain a cat (not particularly prized as a source of meat) that was sold to the victim in an unopened bag — as is HR 1 that not a soul in Congress has read. To “buy a pig in a poke,” is to make a risky purchase without inspecting the item beforehand. The phrase can also be applied to accepting an idea or plan without a full understanding of its basis. If the would-be buyer opened the bag, the trick would be revealed and he’d be “left holding the bag,” meaning to find oneself with nothing for their efforts.
Pork, if forcibly ingested will cause nightmares, not American Dreams.
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