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General Category => Political Talk => Topic started by: tonyb147 on June 04, 2013, 09:07:00 AM
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If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment . . . with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team".
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.
Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds . . . that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates . . . and this is why, from time to time: ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."
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The more that we begin to sww the actual, behind the scenes operation on capital hill and at 1600 PA Ave., the more this explanation makes a world of sense.
You have the Harry Reid's, Nancy Pelosi's, the Di-Fi's, even my own Mitch Mc Connell ensconsed in the everyday workings of the government over a long period of years and soon they all become either irrrelevant or basic idealogues. Maybe basic, irrelevant idealogues!
Fortunately I had an opportunity to vote for Rand Paul in his initial senate bid and I was smart enuff to do so.
Speaking of "irrelevant" it would seem that Barry is working hard to achieve that status. He is a product of Illinois backroom schemes however so it may be a bit early to make such a pronouncement.
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Even if we were able to throw them all out at the same time, the bureaucrats, appointees, czars, and other unelected career officials would be still be on the job. Getting rid of them too would be a much more formidable task.
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Some congressmen could die and their corpse would be re-elected. It is an attractive idea though. In real life, it would never come to pass. Maybe an amendment creating term limits would help. That would never get anywhere either.