There is a story floating around about an elementary school teacher who wants to teach her class about democracy so she decides to have the children elect a class president. To distill the story, two kids emerge as the candidates. (For the whole story, go here and read it.) One presents a serious platform and the other promises ICE CREAM. The kids discuss the two and all they can talk about is getting ice cream. The girl who promised the ice cream doesn't know any specifics about how she will fulfill her promise, but all the kids can think about is getting ice cream and she wins in a landslide.
And so it is with adults. We essentially elected someone president who promised us "ice cream" He didn't give us any specifics, but he promised ice cream. Never mind that there is no money for any ice cream, we know we want it and by God, we were told we would get it!
We denounce those that have ice cream already as being greedy, but it's our own greed that drives us to try and forcibly take away the ice cream they earned. We only have a small cup and they have a big bucket full. We deserve to have part of theirs and we will use the force and might of the Federal Government to take it and redistribute it.
We are greedy. Yes, rich men may be guilty of greed and they often are, but are we no different by demanding that we get some of theirs? And for no better reason than we want it?
At what point do we step back and wonder about our own motives?
We've spent ourselves into oblivion. There is no money for anything and yet we, like squalling, obese infants, demand more from the empty teat of government. We will suckle every last drop and if that isn't enough, we'll drain the very life out of it so that we can get more and more.
We are broke and everyone in the world knows we are broke but us. Why do you think the dollar is now gasping it's final breath as the dominant world currency? But we want more...Gotta soak those rich guys a little bit more! Gotta stop those greedy fat cats from getting all that money ice cream. It's ours!
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's ice cream money."
Welcome to the end of the Republic.
VW
This is actually a great illustration! And one that points out that some real job experience would have helped Obama in governing the country.
Making promises (like closing Guantanamo) without any idea how to execute them is simply foolish. ( http://www.conservativeblog.thewebinfocenter.com/conservative-blog/transparently-foolish ) Now, in what was supposed to be the most transparent administration in history, Team Obama has had to hide behind a curtain to avoid people finding out just how inept they are.
Posted by: MAS1916 | Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 07:57
My advice would be to invest in precious metals in case the excrement hits the overhead air recirculating device. Particularly invest in brass, copper, and lead.
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Posted by: BobF | Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 10:11