Posted on 07/19/2009 7:12:48 AM PDT by RWB Patriot
As cap and trade, universal health care, new bailouts, and more welfare programs are forced through a Congress too arrogant to read its own bills, the question is: Will a majority of Americans continue to sit by apathetically with a “Gee, what if the new ‘stimulus plan’ doesn’t work?” attitude — or will they grow up, get their heads out of the clouds, and take to the streets to peacefully protest?
Alert the media: Nothing this collectivist government does will work! Base your actions accordingly. The U.S. has often been accused of being a nation of sheep. Personally, I think that’s a bad rap on sheep. Sheep are passive creatures who have never asked for anything from anyone. Gene Wilder even fell in love with a sheep in Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* (* But Were Afraid to Ask).
No, Americans are not a nation of sheep. The truth is that the U.S. is a nation overrun by what the late and great Eric Hoffer referred to as “labor fakers.” As state workers used to put it in the good old days of communist Poland: “Whether you stand up or lie down, you get paid just the same.” More simply put: “They pretend to pay us a wage, and we pretend to work.”
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In a word...yes
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