You're a Useful Idiot if You Get Fooled the 10,001st Time

Reprinted from Sunday Front Porch, July 4, 2010

Seriously, how many times do 536 Senators and Congressmen open their mouthes in one year?

You're a naive, useful idiot if...You believe politicians in DC are

1. Just making ignorant mistakes.
2. Have your interest as their primary motivation.
3. In it to "serve."
4. Unaware of the long term consequences of their actions to future generations
5. Caring about those consequences.
6. Liking and respecting you.
7. Not fully aware that the majority of them are millionaires, most directly as a result of being in the center of 'redistributive' power.
8. Expecting to drive the same suicide crates you do; live in the same crowded housing; eat the same "safe" food; wait hours, days, weeks, months, years on end for minimal medical care, if not disqualified for being too young, too old, or too far gone.
9. Planning to start telling you the truth tomorrow, when backed in a corner.
10. Not willing to do the "follow orders for the public good" if you become too much of an impediment to the "People's business (as defined by them).
11. Merely in need of 'replacing' and all will be well again.

It's been going on for centuries, millenia. Isn't it time to learn:

As the villain Auric Goldfinger said to his new captive, 007: "Mr. Bond. They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third times it's enemy action.'"

Folks, pick your source for the 'prophesies: the Bible, Shakespeare, Alexis de Tocqueville, Frederic Bastait, Lysander Spooner, George Orwell, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. so many others. They all had one thing in common---they were merely telling us that all this has happened before. Shall we give a good listen on the 10,000th time---for a change?