Yesterday, I had a retired neighbour friend of mine who just happens to be a die-hard conservative (we can pick our friends but unfortunately we cannot pick our neighbours, who should know better :) ) send me the following:
Catching Wild Pigs
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (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 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, 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 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, 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. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut!
Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam the gate on America.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have" Thomas Jefferson
Cute story (and one Jose would love, I'm sure :-)), that seems to make sense. But what is not being told here is that before the fence went up the piggy's were dying from starvation, want and neglect (see
flock of pigeons) and that our world has changed quite a bit from the old 'red scare' days of years back, that some people today still use to sell to the ignorant masses, who aren't so ignorant any more, with the Internet and all. Consider the following:
In the sixties and early seventies, more than 70 percent of families had Mom at home and relied on Dad as the sole breadwinner. Today in what is popularly known as "the juggler family," in which parents struggle to pay the bills, look after their children, maintain a household, and maintain their relationship. Keeping all these balls in the air takes its toll on family life... "
Americans today have 22 fewer hours a week to spend with their kids than they did in 1969. Millions of children are left in unlicensed day care every day - or at home alone with the TV as a babysitter. Employed mothers lose almost an hour of sleep a day in their attempt to make it all add up."
Over the last thirty years, the average earnings of American men have grown less than 1 percent after being adjusted for inflation. The average two-income family has less discretionary income- and is less financially secure - than its single-earner counterpart thirty years ago.
With the above in mind, one has to wonder how the conservative ideology in this country can even stand up anymore, never mind show it's face. Have they no shame? For all intents and purposes
we have in this country a failed ideology that is still running the roost, oblivious to the harm of what their failed philosophy has done to our people, while all the while trying to bamboozle the public with their propaganda crap, like the piggy story above. In their minds,
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread", so it must be just.
We have literally seen
the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, with eerily similarities to the French Revolution when the aristocrats were oblivious to the suffering that was going on right underneath their own noses. Maybe, we should speak to the French and ask them if we can borrow their guillotine? Then I think you will see a whole lot of smartening up, real quick, I think.
... the more people work, the more people are enmeshed in a system of control which is nondemocratic... there seemed no purpose to the authoritarianism of managers except to create a culture of extreme inequality... produced the feeling of failure and shame... eventually workers think so little of their own worth that they accept the low pay... "We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship."
We are so materialistic poverty now actually carries the shame that cowardice carried in earlier, warrior times.
Today in our country, with hundreds of thousands out of work recently and more adding to their ranks daily, we see our conservative government 'begrudgingly slow' in helping the victims of their failed policies, with increased UI benefits (that all have to pay into but few seem able to collect), and longer eligibility payments. An increased police presence, and the
Tasering and killing of citizens on an unprecedented scale, having total disregard for human life and civil liberties. The Law and Justice system, does the bidding of the rich and powerful (including their
corporations), and goes after the little guys i.e. "The big thieves hang the little ones", while the big guys run amok in this country. When is the last time you heard of a white-collar guy going to jail? You see a lot of them going to jail in the States (including some of our own like Black and Pockington), but not here? That's because we have two systems here in Canada. Like I've said before, "we have
justice for the rich and the law for the poor."
Just to make my point here, what we are seeing from the conservatives is fascist policies of getting tough on crime (including youths), which is geared towards ordinary people who have been put in untenable positions, but nothing against the rich who are exploiting the people, including the banks and credit card companies to name a couple.
To make my case here. Not to long ago, I asked Ted Menzies our local member of Parliament why nothing is being done in this country about white-collared crime and was told the following, "We don't have the budget or manpower to deal with it". They seem to have the manpower and budget to deal with the ordinary guy on the street that steals a loaf of bread to get by, but not with their buddies sitting in the ivory towers, who do more damage to our society, I suggest, than the millions who are finding themselves dispossessed and disenfranchised... and desperate!
We are told to work (if you can find it) for nothing and be good little piggy's, all the while being robbed and exploited by the Whores of Babylon.
Maintaining the current right-wing Laissez-faire capitalism system is what ordinary people have to fear, not systems that help people, by whatever name you want to call them.
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
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