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To: SeekAndFind

Psychology 101

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 Government operates... and this is why, from time to time:

Maybe ALL of the monkeys in the Congress, Senate and the White House need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.


15 posted on 02/08/2013 8:36:32 AM PST by B4Ranch (When democracy turns to tyranny, we still get to vote. We just won't use voting booths to do it.)
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To: B4Ranch

Our system specifically prevents that and it is to our benefit. Imagine an Obama landslide that gave him and his party 100% control over government. What would stop them between then and the next election?

I recognize your frustration and agree with your sentiments, but let’s trust our Founders. The DOD can afford the sequestration cuts. Panetta’s lying and he’s a part of Obama’s team.


16 posted on 02/08/2013 9:00:41 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: B4Ranch

Great example.

In the UK there are people whose families have been on the dole for three generations.

The youngest generation, with this heritage and example, no more understand the work ethic than the man on the moon. They have no idea that they could and should do better, no shame, no expectations, no ambition.

This transformation is already well underway in our blue inner cities.


18 posted on 02/08/2013 2:05:02 PM PST by muffaletaman (IMNSHO - I MIGHT be wrong, but I doubt it.)
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