She said she has “a million ideas but the country can’t afford them all”. When Hillary Mrs. Clinton uttered that phrase our Founding Fathers, who sought to eliminate tyranny by creating a government with limited power, must have been turning pirouettes in their graves! She seems to come up with a new Socialist program every day and is closely followed by Barack Hussein and the lovely Jon Edwards in her passion for imposing ‘free lunches’ upon the weak minded and gullible, who don’t seem to understand there is no such thing. Recently I read a story I’d like to share with you.
It seems there was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had several exchange students in his class. One day, while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if it hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists who were trying to overthrow the government of his native country and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked, “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?” The professor thought it was a joke and guessed at the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. He continued, “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they get used to it, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. Once they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.
By now the pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat. One day you simply slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward Socialism/Communism by spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops, welfare, medicine, drugs and now government run health care…while we continue to lose our freedom, a little at a time.
Remember, there is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’ and you can’t hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. Does some bureaucrat in Washington know better than you what is best for you and your family? Do you want the same mob that bankrupted Social Security, Medicare and who runs the Postal Service determining what medical treatment you’ll get and when or if you’ll even get it?
If you think there’s nothing wrong with letting your neighbor pay your way, look over your shoulder, there’s a fence going up. Ignore the historical plight of socialist countries and failed government programs; let radical Leftist Democrats ruin the finest health care system in the world, tax us into oblivion, redistribute wealth and destroy the free market economy that made America great. If that’s how you choose to squander your liberty, then let them do it all…but God help us when the gate slams shut!
R.S.F.
It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green
When you pass a bad accident, you know how you just have to look…even though you don’t really want to? That’s the way I felt about this guy. I had to see who was driving. As I slowed alongside, sure enough there he was…chin held high, big dopey grin, arm styled on the door sill, doing his part for the global environment. I had to wonder whether he plugged this thing in or just peddled faster when he needed power.
A few days later I was watching the baseball playoffs and voila! There it was! The roller skate was in a commercial on my very own television, with some politically correct character explaining to a bunch of ethnically-balanced kids that this little carnival ride actually goes 34 miles on a gallon of gas. Wow, nearly 3 MPG more than I get with my ‘Stang and I can go zero to 60 in about 7 seconds, laying rubber in the first 3 gears if I’m so inclined. What’s more, I can do it feeling comfortable, looking sharp, enjoying greater safety and for only a few dollars more than the purchase price they were quoting for the skimpy little planet saver. But almost 3 MPG more! How could I be so selfish as to actually place common sense above common good? Gee, come to think of it, I’m still using regular lightbulbs!
I wonder if Al Gore actually realized his misinformation campaign would impact people’s lives to such crazy, dangerous extent when he first launched it. Now that the world’s most proficient liar is sharing The Nobel Peace Prize with the world’s most corrupt organization, will he springboard from his new found notoriety into the 2008 presidential campaign, as I’ve discussed in past posts? Or will he be content to continue getting rich on the backs of little ‘green’ goobers who drive tiny toy cars because they fail to grasp their own cosmic insignificance? Gore now joins Carter, Arafat and a host of other incompetents, thugs and petty dictators who received the same prize, thereby further diminishing it to the stature of an award for “Best Hockey Player In Southern Ecuador”.
When Alfred Nobel endowed the Nobel Peace Prize, he instructed that it go “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Al Gore has done exactly none of those things. The fact is, last Friday the prize was handed to him and two days before, a British judge ruled that Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” contained so many errors (read: lies) that it could be shown in British public schools only if accompanied by a fact sheet correcting the errors.
No, we don’t need to start eating kangaroos because of excess cow flatulence. It has graced our atmosphere for a long time and no-one is gasping for breath just yet. Neither does some bureaucratic agency need to tell us what kind of lightbulbs to use or how much toilet paper we’re allowed for personal use. Less is not more, less is less…no matter what some politician, prize committee or two bit actor says. Because the lemmings are sprinting toward the sea, doesn’t mean we have to slip into our own tennies and head for the water’s edge. We don’t need a bunch of Marxist Liberals dictating what’s best for us on one hand, while they steal more of our liberty with the other.
The tiny highway hazard I encountered displayed one particularly inane sticker which read, “Father God Created Mother Earth”… to which I must hasten to add, “And Together They Created Some Really Scary Children.” Remember, it’s not your tailpipe or some bovine in Kansas but the sun which warms the earth. We don’t need to return to the dark ages or drive a bad joke, yellow or otherwise, to be a friend to the environment. Keeping things clean is common sense; denying natural events in the name of ‘bein’ green’ is pure politics.
R.S.F.