~~~~~~~By Sven Larson~~~~

The day we make contact with extraterrestrial aliens, what do you think would be the first thing our politicians ask them? “Give us free money, you wealthy ET’s! Send us entitlements, you galactic capitalists! Pay for our food, our health care! And throw in contraceptives, too, or else we’ll overpopulate this planet! Look at those shiny UFOs you are lucky enough to have – you’ve had a gazillion years to become rich, so you have got to spread your wealth around to our planet!”

Obviously ET would shake his head, pack up, move on and plan to come back in a couple of hundred years when we have a somewhat better grasp on the concept of economic freedom

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