You take your idea A creative thing Which comes about To you alone Then go ahead and Build on it There are no rules After all It is your dream Freedom does this Liberates the individual Becomes a force for creativity When restricted Progress stalls When diminished Creativity vanishes Success that came on a Cut-to-the-quick budget Is impeded No grants needed Regulations could not Cause one to begin Pamphlets of instruction Not sought Inspectors couldn’t help They would get in the way Just leave alone The work will proceed Others look At what you have They come aboard With their virtue Look to you The driving force Find leadership and Guidelines and also American exceptionalism Collectives try the same thing There is no incentive Effort is unlimited as is The budget Imagination is not employed Results fall short of expectations More money is added Additional manpower, still Results spell failure The few cannot make it work For the masses When there is no carrot There is no movement Things then stand still There is no progress It cannot be willed Funds run dry Failure is evident The claims go on Individuals are not creative Only institutions We emphasize these Agencies, committees, and governments When they move they consume While producing nothing but waste We find ourselves without We find ourselves in debt What to do is what we ask The answer is to liberate Good policies Rule of law Let the market work This will provide incentives Reduce the size of government No man is an island? Wrong We are all islands! We know how to grow Get out of the way Stanski July 30, 2020 ^
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Steve Haarman 