IT’S the COMMIES, stoopid!
I received this email yesterday (from a Republic) circulating a (typical) straw man smear on Democratic policy. It reinforces the claim that kos pointed out in his post today, that Republics (and Libertarians) MUST kill the notion that
"...Democrats [are] the generous protector of middle-class [working family] interests."
Follow me down the rabid hole (and yes, they attack Al Gore too)
The email:
Socialism Is Almost Here
September 23, 2007 on 4:11 pm | In Blog |
Catching Wild 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 professor noticed one 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 told the professor that it 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"; and "You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.")
This has so much meaning and seems to be what’s going on in this country today, that I wanted to post this. If you also see all of the government "help" as a problem for the future of democracy in America , pass it on.
(Emphasis mine)
With a little search on "the Google", I found this (insane) post was at the Libertarian Party, Orange County (Santa Ana) California website. (You don’t need to go there...I cut/pasted it from my email. If that’s against copyright laws [?] I could just post the link...)
While I (we?) might agree about "tobacco subsidies, (CRP)" et al. ...their rant about "medicine, drugs," ... "freedoms ...[and] free lunches", is just wacko!
This is an example of the twisted propaganda being circulated by the privatizers free-marketeers.
If those poor, lazy "middle-classers" can’t keep up with the "free" markets ...fack em!
Oh! And you thought I was going to include Al Gore in this screed?!
Go read it yourself... (Some wackjobs got nuthin better to do with their time)
Read it. I double-dare ya...