‘A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.-Thomas Jefferson.
There was a Chemistry professor at a large college. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (an exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back 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 in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government.
In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ‘ Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke.
‘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 everyday to eat the free corn. When they a re used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When 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. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you 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 Communism/Socialism and keeps 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 CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, free medical, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms – just a little at a time.
One should always remember ‘There is no such thing as a free Lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
Also, if you see that all of this wonderful government ‘help’ is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.
Wild Thing’s comment……..
The assumption is that the followers of Alinski believe that those of us who know better will not fight back.
We just do not have the people we elect that are in place now that have the guts to do it.
We probably have one more chance to fix this…After November 2010, when we can regain some seats, if we do not make a big enough statement, 2012 will come back and bite us…2012 regardless of that outcome, will be a mandate for a change we cannot survive.
Saul Alinsky on “Change”…
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
“There’s another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”
Another quote this one by Jefferson:
“When government … shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” -Thomas Jefferson
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
This growing of government is not accidental. It is like a tumor. Too many people now want government aid and we have poor quality politicians who love power and think only of the next election.
Term limits would help a lot, but that would require courage and sacrifice from politicians. Won’t happen. Gingrich’s Contract with America called for limited terms, but even half of those Republicans broke that promise.
I still say those clasped hands is the secret signal for a national democrat circle jerk.
Tom, your right, too many of them on both sides love the power.
If I hear one more time from a democrat ” the people want” I will scream.
Mark, I never saw anything like that until Obama, at least not that I can remember seeing. But my very first reaction was, what the heck is that supposed to mean, it looks very sexual to me, not necessarily something good sexual just sexual. hahaahahaa
Good one Mark!