Wild Pigs

This is a word to the wise, if you can understand what's going on around you.... *

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 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 regime. 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 every day 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 exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

If you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to share this with your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably not share this.

BUT, God help us all when the gate slams shut!

Quote for today: "The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered."

The Greatest Danger to the Survival of the United States

The Greatest Danger to the Survival of the USA

The greatest danger to the survival of the USA is not Muslim terrorist or bird Flu or nuclear disaster or any of the myriad of catastrophes that pop up on the media daily.  All of these things could happen, most won’t, but it gives the idle minds something to worry over and it attracts viewers, listeners, and computer addicts.  These events have a short term effect on the people involved, but typically that is a very small percentage of the whole population of the United States.

The gravest threat to our existence as we know it for the whole country is an electorate that is incapable or unwilling to understand the principals, beliefs, and character of the candidates for which  they are voting. To vote for someone because he or she is good looking, nice dresser, or has a particular skin color is ludicrous.  Our society today has lost all sense of logic.  We have turned our political process from a great Republic into a reflection of a corrupt third world dictatorship. 

The only solution is to require people to qualify to vote by passing a civics test. Since that will never be politically acceptable, how about going back to government funded campaigning with no outside money, political ads, billboards, etc.  Just a series of debates broadcast on TV, radio, and on the net.

Ineptocracy - A Failed System and How to Fix IT.

There is a direct correlation between the size of government and the money it spends, and the number of laws on the books.  Each new law requires at least 5 government employees to oversee and enforce the law.  It is ridiculous  The most amazing fact about this is that nobody knows how many laws are on the books as it is purely objective as to what is a law  and what isn’t in many cases . One Louisiana congressman said that every person in the United States could be charged with violating one federal law or another. One thing for sure, we have a political system that is wrought with conflict of interest when it comes to lawyers.  Congress has 54% of the Senators and 36% of the representatives as lawyers. How about a sweeping amendment to the Constitution that requires term limits, limit the number of laws on the books, and prohibits lawyers from running for office……fat chance.

What to do….. Elect politicians that are not lawyers and have as a part of their platform, the pledge to repeal laws.  The Political/legal system becomes a make work program for the American Bar Association, creating laws so they can give lawyers work.

This sort of sweeping change is the only thing that can save our Republic from anarchy leading to a totalitarian dictatorship.

On Procedures and Knowledge

On Procedures and Knowledge

Our men’s coffee group only allows five minutes to talk about “conditions and procedures”, after that you must talk about current events and politics, local, national, and international.   After a great deal of study, I have determined that there is a direct correlation between age and knowledge.  I’m sure that Plato came up with that a longtime ago,  but the younger you are the less you know about politics and current events.

Now the philosophical question is……Is it the fact that the older you get allows for more time to research and become aware of the subjects, or do young people just not give a damn.  I think grandchildren are the triggering mechanism.  As your grandchildren grow toward adulthood, you try to envision what kind of a life they are going to have.  That scares the hell out of you today, so you look for what can be done to improve the grandkids lot.  After very little study, you see that the fault lies with the idiots we elect to political office at all levels.

The last 6 years have seen a doubling of rules and laws, when local, state, and national forms of governance are considered.  Of course there is some variance based on states.  I’m sure that is not true in Wyoming.

At all levels of governance we must start repealing laws, and make it illegal to create a new law without repealing an old one.  This is THE problem that is increasing the size of government. This is the procedure that must be implemented all over the country. Find a politician that will sign on to this law.....

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

 



I see all of my friends spending time talking about procedures and medications and being completely oblivious to what is going on in the good old USA.  What is wrong with this picture???

The country is in a financial death spiral, Christianity is being  demonized, most of the Euro centric nationalities are fast disappearing, and we are sitting around fiddling.......and Rome is on fire.

I am of the age that nothing will change for me, but what of my children and especially my grandchildren.  They have little hope of living to a standard that I enjoyed,  AND there are people in Washington that say "that is the way it should be"!!!

Is there really a conspiracy to take from the rich countries and give wealth to the developing countries because the rich countries got rich at the expense of the poor countries??  Did it begin with Marx and  has been refined over the decades to what we have in the USA today??  Are groups like The Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and others really running the world??? 

I don't know the answers to these questions, but I do know that the people we have in Washington today, both Democratic and Republican are totally inept.  They are doing everything wrong, whether purposely or because they are selfish and stupid remains to be seen.  The comparison with the downfall of Rome is scary....we are on the same path.  I just wish I had 30 more years and the time, energy, and money to do something about it...

The next 30 years could be a disaster...I hope our grandchildren survive.

Too Much Data

It is apparent in today’s world that we have too much data and information available to the common man.  Everyone is too lazy or too busy to take the time to understand the data so they rely on someone else to interpret it for them.  That is where our problems begin.  The interpreter has an agenda, because everyone has an agenda, usually relevant to what makes them the most money or gives them the biggest ego boost.   So the bias interpreter tells the common man what the data means with his or her spin on the conclusions that are made.  The common man then runs out and parrots this conclusion to all of his friends and relatives as though it was his original interpretation of the data.  With the abundance of data and the abundance of interpreters, you seldom get any valid information from the vast amount of data.

Much time is spent in useless analysis and our productivity goes down and down.  We know the greatest detail about insignificant things, but details about important matters are lost in the quagmire of useless information.  As a result the common man “tweets”  his friends and posts something on Facebook and he is ambivalent to the crashing world around him.

More and more Americans are really clueless as to the situation that exists in the world today because it is beyond their desire or capability to sift through the data and come to a conclusion themselves.   This is a very dangerous situation in terms of the survival of our society.  We are “ripe for the pickens” and there are plenty of evil people trying to pick the fruit of the United States.

A letter to the Editor

Captain Pugwash would approve of this "letter to the editor"!!!  It says what so many of us have been feeling....