A fence : A story with a great moral...
There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy's father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.
On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad!
Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased.
It wasn't long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn't lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn't wait to tell his father.
Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper.
Several weeks went by and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
"You have done very well, my son," he smiled, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same."
The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak.
"When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wounds will still be there."
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An America Lost The Demise of Demoracy
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of
the
Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy
is always
temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up
until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves
generous
gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority
always votes for the candidates who promise the most
benefits from
the public treasury, with the result that every democracy
will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always
followed by a
dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those
200
years, these nations always progressed through the following
sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law
in
St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts
concerning
the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain:
2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain:
143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama:
13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the
territory
McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying
citizens
of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
low
income tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between
the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor
Tyler's definition of
democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's
population
already having reached the "governmental
dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million
criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we
can say
goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
General Electric Takes its Money and Jobs to China
Keeping in mind that GE OWNS NBC, CNBC AND MSNBC
General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray
division from Waukesha, Wis. to Beijing. In addition to moving the
headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than
65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made
$5.1 billion in the United States last year,but paid no taxes ... the same
company that employs more people overseas than it does in the United States.
So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE
Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt
is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in
which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs. If this doesn't show you
the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does. Please
pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.
THIS IS WHATS REALLY GOING ON in GOVERNMENT!!
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