Old MacDonald Had a Farm
CATCHING PIGS
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some
exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab,
the prof noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing
his back and stretching as if his back hurt. 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 that it 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 are 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, which are used to
the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn
again. You then 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 in 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,
tax cuts, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments
not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we
continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh!
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 regime.
And on his farm he had some pigs, ee i ee i oh!
With an oink-oink here, and an oink-oink there
Here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink-oink
Old MacDonald had a farm, ee i ee i oh!
Notes: I created the above warning about a year ago. The following is an update about a year later and still has the same warning. Does everybody also realize the amount of beauocracy required to police/maintain a socialistic country?
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Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation
Star Parker - Syndicated Columnist - 2/9/2009 8:00:00 AM  Six years ago I wrote a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation. I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.
I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas -- a poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism. I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (EANF), Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps. A vast sea of perhaps well-intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960s, that were going to lift the nation's poor out of poverty. A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?" Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems -- the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others. The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families. Through God's grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood what freedom meant and how great this country is. I had the privilege of working on welfare reform in 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by 50 percent... I thought we were on the road to moving socialism out of our poor black communities and replacing it with wealth-producing American capitalism. But, incredibly, we are going in the opposite direction. Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich American on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism. Uncle Sam has welcomed our banks onto the plantation and they have said, "Thank you, Suh." Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done to serve customers, they are thinking about what they have to tell Massah in order to get their cash. There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president. And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy to move onto the plantation. In an op-ed on the opinion page of the Washington Post, Mr... Obama is clear that the goal of his trillion dollar spending plan is much more than short term economic stimulus. "This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America 's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, healthcare, and education." Perhaps more incredibly, Obama seems to think that government taking over an economy is a new idea. Or that massive growth in government can take place "with unprecedented transparency and accountability." Yes, sir, we heard it from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education. Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- The War on Poverty -- which President Johnson said "...does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty." Trillions of dollars later, black poverty is the same. But black families are not, with triple the incidence of single-parent homes and out-of-wedlock births. It's not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama's invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.. Does anyone really need to think about what to do? |
It just looks to me that the last thing you want to do is propose changes when the economy is in the shape that it is in now. All that does is cause more instability. Right now people are wondering what comes next in their jobs and their businesses. If you cannot foresee the future and what it means to you then you hunker down and try to hold things together. You basically put things on hold.
It is unbelievable that those in power can not see this. By just proposing a "Carbon Tax" in these times puts future business plans on hold. At this point no one know how this will effect their business. Why would we want to put more uncertainty onto businesses now? The same goes for health care, salary regulation, wall street regulation and etc. All this does is create an uncertain atmosphere in all sectors of this great country. It just puts the American people's solutions on hold. Nobody can do anything right now.
Look for this economy to struggle for years to come if they continue this approach. This simple redneck suggests tax cuts for businesses and those that pay taxes, cuts in spending and stop this talk about change.
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So what have we learned in two millennia? "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. --- Cicero , 55 BC Evidently, nothing.... |
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