GOVERNMENT DEVIL

Government Devil Gives 3 Wishes!
GOVERNMENT DEVIL: I will give you 3 wishes. You get whatever
You want. Then I tell you the terms.
CITIZEN: Sounds great I wish I did not have to work.
GOVERNMENT DEVIL: Then you will live out your life in a Government slum, with bureaucratic handouts.
CITIZEN: That doesn’t sound fair, but I like the no working part.
GOVERNMENT DEVIL: I thought you would. Now for your second wish.
CITIZEN: My next wish is to have free medical care.
GOVERNMENT DEVIL: You have it! All you have to do is wait months for an appointment, go to a dirty clinic with snarley government employees, fill out endless forms, wait in line for hours, and receive primitive treatment.
CITIZEN: But it’s free, right?
GOVERNMENT DEVIL: Yes it is. And for your third wish?
CITIZEN: I want more security.
GOVERNMENT DEVIL: And you shall have it. Everything about you will be known and monitored by the government for the rest of your life. You will ALWAYS carry your government ID card. You will without question follow all government orders, and should you violate procedures; you will be in Big Trouble with the government. But you will feel secure.
CITIZEN: I don’t think this is fair. I won’t work but I will have to live in a
slum. I give up world class medical care, for some primitive dangerous bureaucratic system. And I get security, but I become a life-long captive under government surveillance. I don’t like this!
GOVERNMENT DEVIL. Do you think I care?


Tom Sullivan 2008