A Short Thought To Ponder About Slavery

Posted Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at 9:41 PM

"This old fellow bought some corn, loaded it into his wagon, and started off down the road to the town swamp. He told his neighbors he was going to catch the wild pigs in the swamp.

Well, those pigs had been there for fifty years, and nobody had ever caught them, so his neighbors thought he was loony. Well, it wasn't many weeks before he came back to town and he had the pigs.

How did he do it? Well, he began putting corn out and gradually he built a fence in back of the corn. Pretty soon he extended it onto two sides and by this time, the pigs were eating together. He finally put the final side in, and soon had the pigs eating out of his hand.

Well, once government starts giving handouts and you take them, they own you."

Ronald Reagan, Sept 8, 1973

......................the concept behind ANY successful socialist program is to keep "spreading everyone else's wealth", until you are SO DEPENDENT upon the government, you no longer have any other choice but to obey........................"Zook", Feb 1, 2012

The history played out on the world's stage has proven only too often, that "slavery" comes in more than one form.

Yeah, I know............."it could never happen here."

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Great Blog, I agree with you totally. We are experiencing all kinds of slavery in this world today. Some of it is self-imposed.

-- Posted by KH Gal on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 7:29 AM
A simple question, is keeping us safe apply to just those trying to invade us, or does it include those inside our country that would do to harm us and our environment?

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 12:00 PM
Mike, I think you missed my point. More to the point, is it federal governments job to protect the air we breath and the water we drink? From personal experience, there are companies that would gladly pollute our air and water in a heartbeat if they could get away with it.

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 12:26 PM
Roy:

Every law put into place in the 20th Century and the late 19th century seemed like a good idea. Unfortunately, the snowball effect of trying to legislate morality and the efforts to prevent all sorts of diasterous scenarios have clogged our system with useless regulations or outdated ones.

We can have laws into place concerning clean air and water. What we do not need is multiple agencies doing the same thing and costing additional tax dollars. if you combined some of these agencies, you could eliminate resources being duplicated, better communications and a great savings to the taxpayer.

In the age of great technology of the 21st Century, there are many many agencies that are redundant, Like Rural Electric.

I think that it is more important right now to demand an accounting of our tax dollars. If we were able to look at the line items of the budget, I am sure that we could cut out a great many things without hurting seniors or the poor and the military too.

Common Sense is in short supply in the federal government these days.

-- Posted by KH Gal on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 12:48 PM
Well Mike, having spent 35 years in an industry that could and would pollute water so severely that nothing could survive exposure to, I would have to opt for regulation here. Since most of us have water that comes from wells, as opposed to surface water, if that aquifer is poisoned, then we all end up without usable water. Look at what the semiconductor industry did to the water in California, or what PG&E did to the aquifer in a community in California. These things did happen, and we the people paid for it and will continue to pay for generations.

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 1:07 PM
Sorry Mike, I was following Buckshot's comment and went off course. My apologies.

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 4:54 PM
I have already stated that there if fact many regulations. I have also stated that the sad fact is that many regulations come about by the actions of the few, but the many pay. It sucks. You know it and I know it. Should there be a comprehensive evaluation of all regulations? Absolutely! To whom do we entrust this job to???

There's an old joke about "Trust Me", way too off color to tell here.

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 7:21 PM
PS, I left you a message on my last blog.

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 7:22 PM

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