A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots

[basswipe]

A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots

by Jeff Foxworthy:

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

Jeff's got it right.Words to live by people.

[JohnR]

While everything here is pretty on point it was not from Jeff Foxworthy

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/idiots.asp

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by JohnR

While everything here is pretty on point it was not from Jeff Foxworthy

http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/idiots.asp

Someone sent me that and I just assumed it was his material.But I agree its on point.

Would love to know who that actually originated from!

[Nebe]

Probably some republican who was willing to lie to get his point across.
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[spence]

Originally Posted by basswipe

Would love to know who that actually originated from!

You could write this stuff all day and just as easy to write things that would appeal the other direction as well.

Most of these when you really read them don't make a lot of sense...they're spin.

-spence

[basswipe]

It is correct and exactly how things are.I've witnessed all of those situations first hand,there's no spin there it is simply the reality in which we live,there's no other way to interpret it.Reality's a bitch and many Americans bury their heads in the sand and make excuses.....if you deny its real than it must not be real.

Sorry guys but that is the reality in which we live.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

You could write this stuff all day and just as easy to write things that would appeal the other direction as well.

I assume you believe that it would depend on context, and variables, and relative perceptions. Which, of course, would make all observations merely exercises in solipsistic masturbation--just stuff easily spewed all day, going in onanistic directions--as easy, no doubt, as it was for you to write the above uninformative but dismissive sentence.

Most of these when you really read them don't make a lot of sense...they're spin.

-spence

Having really read basswipe's post, its observations make a lot of sense to me. But I view them in the context of the principles that guided the geniuses who formed this nation. When those principles are abandoned, not replaced with other consistent or immutable ones, but by rule of whim, then there is no constant "sense" to government. Basswipe's post demonstrates this well. And spin, in this state of whimsy, becomes the mode of conversation and communication. Spin is the method of persuasion. The rhetoric which daily and easily spews from the mouths of our politicians who constantly want to "help" us with new burdensome regulations persuade us to accept them by wonderfully spinning the great benefits they bestow upon us--never mind the increasing debt, contradictory laws, and loss of freedom.

[iamskippy]

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