For about ten seconds I read this as a totally sincere motivational sign and was briefly motivated.
…I am just not the intended audience for this rhetoric.
WORK HARD!
Children, the elderly, and the chronically ill cannot fend for themselves!
oh noes, taxation is theft
“The Iron Hand of the state shall provide.”
“Who is the Iron Hand of the State?”
“Why, you are. We all are.”
“I find this disconcerting.”