The national debt began to create my concern for our future. Then enter Senator Bernie Sanders as a Presidential candidate in the last election. Now, Sanders is an avowed liberal socialist and everybody is entitled to a philosophy, but what created my fear for the future of our country were the thousands and thousands of people that became such strong supporters of the Bernie agenda. Free college, free, low or no cost health care, free, free, free. What on earth were these people thinking? Who would pay for all this free stuff as we all know very few things are actually free?

This seems like people are asking for and expecting redistribution of wealth so that the Federal Government will be responsible for taking money from people that have worked hard to earn it, and giving it to people that haven’t. I know, I know there are exceptions to this but the sheer numbers of people supporting Bernie can’t all be exceptions. I just read a statement that I would like to share and I don’t know who said it, but it is appropriate for this opinion piece. “When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.”