I used to love fairy tales as a child, particularly The Book of Goodnight Stories, a now out-of-print collection that had all the familiar ones (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast) as well as some more obscure ones. I’d like to share one of those lesser-known stories, as it makes for an interesting analogy.

Once upon a time, a spoiled princess was out in the royal gardens and saw the sun shining on the morning dew, creating brilliant colors all over the grass. She ran to her father and demanded that it be made into jewelry for her — I believe the exact phrase was, “Father, I must have a diadem of morning dew, or I shall die!”

Her father (a real peach) ordered the royal jeweler to cough up the crown by the next morning, or face beheading. The jeweler was terrified, and of course the next morning, no diadem. The king ordered the jeweler’s execution, but a wise old man who happened to be at court said, “Wait! I’ll make the princess her diadem, but she must first gather the dew herself for me to make it.”

The princess went running to get some dew for her jewelry collection. Of course, the drops ran through her fingers and lost their pretty light reflections once they were in her hands. The princess tearfully apologized to the jeweler, and instead of being executed, he was given lots of gold. The End.

Now, let’s look at a fable this reminds me of…

Once upon a time, there was a prince who had never done anything useful with his life. The prince wanted universal healthcare. He ordered his ministers to come up with a solution by the August recess, Or Else…

Unfortunately, this tale doesn’t seem to be panning out the way the princess’s did. It only took one example for the princess to figure out that she was violating the nature of morning dew by trying to collect it for a necklace. But no matter how many examples of countries stagnating under government-run healthcare you show him, no matter how many essays we write, Prince Obama continues to ignore the fact that he is violating the nature of man by using force to make us behave the way he’d like — and that his dream of healthcare that grows on trees is just as impossible as a diadem of morning dew.

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