Mark & Juanita wrote:

The nation's Founders weren't too enthralled with democracy either,that is
why the established a Republic. The idea of a pure democracy (as we are
seeing today) truly is "the mob" ruling. It is 51% of people who don't pay
income taxes voting in politicians who continue to promise to punish the
49% of those who do pay taxes and obtaining more support from some of that
49% by telling *them* that they are really only going after the 5% of wage
earners who are now paying 60% of all income taxes. Pure democracy can be
likened to two foxes and a chicken deciding on the lunch menu. That is why
the Republic outlined in the Constitution was established -- to make sure
that no one swing group could control the direction and fortunes of the
country. Unfortunately, too many "progressives" going back to at least
Woodrow Wilson decided that was too "quaint" and "inefficient" and that
the "voices of the people" should be the driving force for all policies.
So now we have all these neat "innovations" to the constitution, like the
Income Tax -- a direct tax on the citizens of the various states that has
now managed to place the federal government pretty much in absolute control
of every citizen's life due to the control of how those taxes are spent.

The message below was sent by e-mail to me recently. I believe it fits
nicely into this thread.
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Catching Wild Pigs

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in
the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed
one young 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, which 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 then told the professor that 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.

Keep your eyes on the newly elected politicians who are about to slam
the gate on America.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch!
Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you
can do it yourself.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough
to take away everything you have"

Thomas Jefferson


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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA