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“The Nine Words More Terrifying… and the Mayor Who Proves Reagan Right”. · The Slippery Slope

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  The 9 words more terrifying and the mayor who proves Reagan
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  right. Welcome back to the Slippery
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  Slope. I'm Jay Fallon.
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  So today we're looking at a moment that perfectly captures
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  the madness of modern politics, a moment so ironic, so self
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  defeating that you almost have to laugh.
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  New York Mayor Azor Zohan Zoran Mehndani.
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  I stood up and quoted Ronald Reagan's famous warning.
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  I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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  But then he said he disagrees with Reagan.
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  He said the nine more terrifying words are I worked all day and
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  can't feed my family. Let's check it out.
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  I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president,
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  Ronald Reagan. He famously said the nine most
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  terrifying words in the English language.
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  Or I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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  It's a good quote but I disagree.
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  I think 9 more terrifying words are actually.
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  I worked all day and can't feed my family.
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  Now, on the surface, that sounds compassionate.
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  It sounds like a leader who cares about struggling families.
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  But here's the problem, and it's it's a pretty big one.
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  Mehndani's own socialist ideology is the reason families
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  can't feed themselves in the first place.
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  The irony? They just don't seem to hear it.
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  This is the part that blows my mind.
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  A socialist mere quotes Reagan, mocks Reagan, and then
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  unintentionally proves Reagan right.
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  Because Reagan wasn't warning about kindness.
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  He he wasn't warning about compassion.
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  He was warning about government control.
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  The kind of control Mehndani openly embraces.
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  Mamdani claims the government should step in, take over
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  grocery stores no matter what price you're paying to open the
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  grocery stores, which is way out of control.
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  Then regulate prices and use the power of the state to fix the
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  cost of living. But, but government doesn't
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  create wealth. Government doesn't innovate and
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  government doesn't build prosperity.
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  Government spends other people's money, and when that money runs
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  out, when it which it always does, the people suffer.
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  It's the socialist playbook. This is the same pattern we've
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  seen in every socialist experiment.
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  They crush business with regulation and taxes.
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  Australia anyone? Punish entrepreneurship?
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  Definitely Australia right now. Drive out investment, hello the
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  latest budget and watch prices rise and jobs disappear?
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  Yes Australia. Then they claim only government
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  can save people from the crisis that government created.
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  It is the arsonist returning to the burning house with a bucket
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  of water demanding applause. Mamdani talks about people
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  working all day and and still struggling to feed their
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  families. And yes, that is tragic but
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  under his policy that's exactly what you get.
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  Because when you destroy the economic engine, business,
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  innovation, risk taking, entrepreneurship, you destroy
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  the very thing that feeds families.
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  So this is the real root of poverty.
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  Here's the truth no socialists want wants to admit.
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  Prosperity comes from work, you need to work.
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  Prosperity comes from work, creativity and opportunity.
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  Not government handouts never comes from government handouts.
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  The Bible is clear about this. Proverbs.
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  Proverbs 10/4 says lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent
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  hands bring wealth. Say that again.
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  Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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  As Scripture teaches personal responsibility, stewardship and
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  productivity, it teaches that people are meant to build,
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  create and contribute. But socialist ideology flips
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  that upside down. It punishes the diligence and
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  rewards dependency. It replaces personal
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  responsibility with state control.
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  It replaces opportunity with entitlements.
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  Exactly what's happening here in Australia.
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  And once people become dependent on government for food, housing,
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  healthcare and income, government owns them, owns us.
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  That's the part Mehndani doesn't say out loud.
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  So Reagan was right. Reagan understood something that
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  today's political class refuses to understand.
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  Albanese When government grows, freedom shrinks.
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  And when government becomes the provider, the regulator, the
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  employer, the landlord and the grocery store, you don't have a
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  society anymore. You have a dependency system.
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  A system where politicians get to play saviour while spending
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  money they never earned. A system where the people who
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  actually work, build and create are punished.
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  A system where the state becomes the centre of life and the
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  individual becomes irrelevant. So when Mehndani says the most
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  terrifying words are I worked all day and can't feed my
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  family, he's right, but for the wrong reason.
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  Because under his ideology, that's exactly what New Yorkers
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  can expect. And unfortunately, I believe my
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  opinion is this is exactly what Australians can expect.
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  This is the slippery slope, this is the slope we're sliding down.
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  Politicians creates the crisis. I've spoken about this before.
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  This is exactly what happened during the great plan that we
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  had a couple of years ago, especially when I was talking
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  about police, certain police, commissioners creating the
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  problem, creating the crisis, and then coming along and
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  saying, hey, we can look at us, we have the answers, we will
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  have the answers, we can fix the crisis, all the while
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  disregarding the fact that they created the crisis in the 1st
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  place. This is the slope we're sliding
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  down. Politicians create the crisis,
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  politicians blame the system. Politicians expand their power,
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  and the public becomes more dependent, more controlled and
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  less free. This is why we must be vigilant.
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  This is why we must push back because once government becomes
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  the provider of everything, it becomes the master of
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  everything, and history shows us every single time that never
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  ends well. As always, this is just my
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  opinion and I'm still Jay Fallon.
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  And thanks for listening to the Slippery Slope Podcast.
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  I think you all know that I've always felt the 9 most
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  terrifying words in the English language are I'm from the
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  government and I'm here to help they.
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  Decide they will take