Conundrums

 

Free people are not equal.

Equal people are not free.

 

Continued:

"A gun is like a parachute. If

you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never

need one again."

 

The definition of the word Conundrum is:

something that is puzzling or confusing.

 

Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the

United States of America:

 

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of

the population is subsidized.

 

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet

they think they are victims.

 

3. They think they are victims - yet their

representatives run the government.

 

4. Their representatives run the government - yet

the poor keep getting poorer.

 

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have

things that people in other countries only dream about.

 

6. They have things that people in other

countries only dream about - yet they want America to be

more like those other countries.

 

Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much

sums up the USA in the 21st Century.

 

Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

 

These three, short sentences tell you a lot about

the direction of our current government and cultural

environment:

 

1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the

actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to

judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.

Funny how that works. And here's another one

worth considering...

 

2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social

Security is going to run out of money.  But we never

hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? 

What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their

money, but the second didn't.

Think about it.....and Last but not least,

 

3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans,

no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a

level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping

the payments or benefits to illegal aliens.

 

 

Am I the only one missing something?

And it took a black female reporter writing it to make it as effective as it is.              A white man's account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obamas is penned by a well- known journalist of color?

 

 

(Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles ..)

  The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obamas. Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obamas? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture."

  The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.

  I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America . They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.

 

I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President, and a love of our country and her citizens, from the leader entrusted with the governance of same.

 

President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish.

 

Obama's  arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing Congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?

 

Presidents are politicians, and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie.   But even using that low standard,   the Obamas have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths.   They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.

 

I do not like them because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America.  I view that statement and that mind set as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.

 

Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do that. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things is because they have something to hide." No President in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. (AND THE 'SILENT MAJORITY' REMAIN SILENT!)

 

And what the two of them have shared has been proven to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family.  He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea.  He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address.

 

He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today.   (DON'T FORGET THE 'DEVOTED MUSLIMS' HE'S PLACED IN GOV'T)   He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support.  He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel.

 

His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world).  I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.

 

I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.

 

Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.

 

I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are.   There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white President and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.

 

As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader.  He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his Presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequaled.  Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.

 

Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected President, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a First Lady who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders.  He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America 's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.

READ THIS AND PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE WHO IS A VOTER

What Difference Does It Make?   Written by a cousin of Ambassador Stevens, a US Navy Chaplain, Senior Pastor Ret'd.   THIS IS A TRUE STORY  ...and a dirty one!  Be sure to read it and then pass it on.   You need to read this true account of what happened to our Ambassador Stevens and the other 3 who died.    Cynthia Lee Myers wanted to share the truth of what happened over in Libya, you will not find this in the media yet, but it aired on FNC please read....   Here is my story.  A week out the Embassy in Tripoli began receiving multiple tips about an Al Qaeda cell in the area planning an attack on 9/11 in response to the killing of Bin Laden.  For the next several days, the State Dept. and WH were asked for a security force and were denied at least six times.  Ambassador Stevens and his team were given the all clear that the Consulate in Benghazi was safe and there was no need for a security force other than his 3 personal guards (One being my cousin) and a few Libyans who were not armed.  Then the attack and murders occurred.   Immediately the WH claimed it was a protest gone bad over a you tube video.  Obama made a quick speech in the Rose Garden on Sept.12 before catching a plane to Vegas to campaign.  He made a generic statement at the end of his speech after placing the blame on an overheated protest over the video.  He said �No act of terror will shake the resolve of America.       Later that day and over the next 2 days, the liberal media began saying Ambassador Stevens and the other 3 men died of smoke inhalation.       This was not the case.   Out of respect for my cousin, I'm not going to be specific about his murder.  However. Ambassador Stevens was brutally murdered.  His genitals were cut off, he was sodomized and beaten and cut and stabbed and burned.  He was drug thru the streets and left for dead.       This is eyewitness testimony of a local Dr. who found the Ambassador in a ditch and tried to save his life.  He had no idea who he was.       The other 3 men, including my cousin, met similar fates.  And deaths due to smoke inhalation is a 100% fabricated LIE.   The next week I drove my aunt and Uncle and 2 others to DC to receive his body.  We met with Hillary, Panetta, and Susan Rice.  ALL of whom apologized and said it was a protest gone bad over a video and exited the area.       Next, Obama entered with the same story and didn't apologize and wasn't sympathetic.  My aunt cried to this man and all he did was hand her flowers and walk away.   I tried to get his attention, but didn't. I got upset and yelled liar to him, he kept walking.       Then a secret service agent grabbed my arm and led me to a room where I was held till the proceedings were over.   America, I saw firsthand how cold this man is.  What kind of liar he is.  Most of you haven't a clue about this tyrant and yet many of you support him.       These murders and the fast and furious cover-ups make Watergate look like a kid who told his BFF's secret to the class.   THIS PART YOU DON'T KNOW, BUT SHOULD.  AMERICAN VALOR, BENGHAZI, LIBYA:   The stunning part of this story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force.       Once the compound was overrun, the attackers were incensed to discover that just two men had inflicted so much death and destruction.   The news has been full of the attacks on our embassies throughout the Muslim world, and in particular, the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya..       However, there's a little known story of incredible bravery, heroics, and courage that should be the top story.   So what actually happened at the U.S. Embassy in Libya?       We are learning more about this every day.  Ambassador Stevens and Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, along with administrative staff, were working out of temporary quarters due to the fact that in the spring of 2011 during the so-called Arab Spring, the United States cut ties with then president Moammar Gadhafi.       Our embassy was looted and ransacked, causing it to be unusable.  It is still in a state of disrepair.   Security for embassies and their personnel is to be provided by the host nation.       Since Libya has gone through a civil war of sorts in the past 18 months, the current government is very unstable, and therefore, unreliable.   A well-organized attack by radical Muslims was planned specifically targeting the temporary U.S. Embassy building.  The Libyan security force that was in place to protect our people deserted their post, or joined the attacking force.  Either way, our people were in a real fix.   And it should be noted that Ambassador Stevens had mentioned on more than one occasion to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that he was quite concerned for his personal safety and the welfare of his people.   It is thought that Ambassador Stevens was on a �hit list�.  A short distance from the American compound, two Americans were sleeping.  They were in Libya as independent contractors working an assignment totally unrelated to our embassy.  They also happened to be former Navy Seals.   When they heard the noise coming from the attack on our embassy, as you would expect from highly trained warriors, they ran to the fight.  Apparently, they had no weapons, but seeing the Libyan guards dropping their guns in their haste in fleeing the scene, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty snatched up several of these discarded weapons and prepared to defend the American compound.   Not knowing exactly what was taking place, the two Seals set up a defensive perimeter.  Unfortunately Ambassador Stevens was already gravely injured, and Foreign Service officer, Sean Smith, was dead.       However, due to their quick action and suppressive fire, twenty administrative personnel in the embassy were able to escape  to safety.  (But all have been silenced and kept away from congress and all investigations on Benghazi!)       Eventually, these two courageous men were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers brought against them, an enemy force numbering between 100 to 200 attackers which came in two waves.       But the stunning part of the story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force.  Once the compound was overrun, the attackers were incensed to discover that just two men had inflicted so much death and destruction.   As it became apparent to these selfless heroes, they were definitely going to lose their lives unless some reinforcements showed up in a hurry.  As we know now, that was not to be.  I'm fairly certain they knew they were going to die in this gunfight, but not before they took a whole lot of bad guys with them!   Consider these tenets of the Navy SEAL Code:   1) Loyalty to Country, Team and Teammate,   2) Serve with Honor and Integrity On and Off the Battlefield,   3) Ready to Lead, Ready to Follow, Never Quit,   4) Take responsibility for your actions and the actions of your teammates,   5) Excel as Warriors through Discipline and Innovation,   6) Train for War, Fight to Win, Defeat our Nation's Enemies, and...   7) Earn your Trident every day.     Thank you, Tyrone and Glen. To the very last breath, you both lived up to the SEAL Code. You served all of us well. You were courageous in the face of certain death.  And Tyrone, even though you never got to hold your newborn son, he will grow up knowing the character and quality of his father, a man among men who sacrificed himself defending others.   Dr. Charles R. Roots Senior Pastor   Former Staff Sergeant, USMC Captain,   U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps (Ret.)     This Should Be Passed On And On And On �   NO TRUE AMERICAN WOULD OBJECT TO RECEIVING THIS MORE THAN ONCE...  SO PASS IT ON And Let us never forget Hillary Clinton's Comment �What Difference At This Point Does It Make?�  And she wants to be our next president!  She should be sitting in prison right now!

Joseph Sahagun

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> STOP TRASHING OBAMA
> by COL. ROBERT F. CUNNINGHAM and PATRICK RISHOR, The Gilmer
> Mirror
>
> 1. Quit
> trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than
> any other President before him. Here is a list of his
> impressive accomplishments:
>
> 2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign
> student, then deny he was a foreigner.
>
> 3. First President to have a social security number from a
> state he has never lived in.
>
> 4. First President to preside over a cut to the
> credit-rating of the United States.
>
> 5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
>
> 6. First President to be held in contempt of court for
> illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
>
> 7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a
> product from a third party.
>
> 8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on
> "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing
> as "shovel-ready" jobs.
>
> 9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over
> control of companies to his union supporters.
>
> 10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the
> Dream Act through executive fiat.
>
> 11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that
> stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the
> U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.
>
> 12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20
> billion to one of his political appointees.
>
> 13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation
> (Chrysler) to resign.
>
> 14. First President to terminate America ’s ability to put
> a man in space.
>
> 15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and
> to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
>
> 16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen
> without being present.
>
> 17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law
> unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
>
> 18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they
> publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
>
> 19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in
> which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
>
> 20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he
> swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
>
> 21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that
> had been properly issued years ago.
>
> 22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American
> industry (coal).
>
> 23. First President to fire an inspector general of
> AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption
> case.
>
> 24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected
> officials in his office.
>
> 25. First President to surround himself with radical left
> wing anarchists.
>
> 26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in
> his five years in office.
>
> 27.First President to hide his birth, medical, educational
> and travel records.
>
> 28.First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing
> NOTHING to earn it.
>
> 29.First President to go on multiple "global apology
> tours" and concurrent "insult our friends"
> tours.
>
> 30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in
> addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House
> parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
>
> 31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer
> funded) for his wife.
>
> 32 .First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for
> $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
>
> 33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from
> Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
>
> 34. First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the
> early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is
> the most beautiful sound on earth.
>
> 35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one
> of the American 50 states ( Mexico vs Arizona ).
>
> 36. First President to tell the military men and women that
> they should pay for their own private insurance because they
> "volunteered to go to war and knew the
> consequences."
>
> 37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of
> the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the
> last suggestion. (Thank God he didn't get away with THIS
> one.)
>
> How is this hope and change' working out for you?
>
> It's hard to comprehend all this guy has gotten away
> with. Any other president would have been impeached! What in
> God's name is wrong with our government that they allow
> this guy carte blanc. It absolutely boggles the
> mind.

Canadian editorial humor directed at US



This is Canada ’s Top Ten List of America ’s Stupidity.) 



10) Only in America...could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at 
a $35,000.00-a-plate campaign fund-raising event. 

9) Only in America...could people claim that the government still discriminates 
against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney 
General, and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the 
population is black.  40% of all federal entitlements go to black Americans – 3X 
the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

8) Only in America...could they have had the two people most responsible for 
our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the former head of the Treasury Department) and Charles 
Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax 
cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.



7) Only in America...can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah
and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed 
by the backlash.

6) Only in America...would they make people who want to legally become 
American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of 
thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who
sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens. 

5) Only in America...could the people who believe in balancing the budget and 
sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."



4) Only in America...could you need to present a driver's license to cash a 
check or buy alcohol, but not to vote. 

3) Only in America...could people demand the government investigate whether 
oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when 
the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less
than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).



2) Only in America...could the government collect more tax dollars from the 
people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more 
than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain 
that it doesn't have nearly enough money.



1) Only in America...could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be 
accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

The Architect of Destruction By Maureen Scott

AMAZING ESSAY!

Maureen Scott is an ardent American patriot who was born in Pittsburgh , PA , and retired to Richmond , VA , in 2000. Free from the nine-to-five grind of writing for employers and clients, she began writing political commentary to please herself and express her convictions. Our Pledge of Allegiance, a military band playing the National Anthem, and the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, inspire her passion and views. Her life is guided by a firm belief that truth is the most important virtue, and that God knows what He is doing with her.

The Architect of Destruction By Maureen Scott

Obama appears to be a tormented man filled with resentment, anger, and disdain for anyone of an opinion or view other than his. He acts in the most hateful, spiteful, malevolent, vindictive ways in order to manipulate and maintain power and control over others. Perhaps, because, as a child, he grew up harboring an abiding bitterness toward the U.S. that was instilled in him by his family and mentors…it seems to have never left him.

It is not the color of his skin that is a problem in America .

Rather it is the blackness that fills his soul and the hollowness in his heart where there should be abiding pride and love for this country.

Think: Have we ever heard Obama speak lovingly of the U.S.or its people, with deep appreciation and genuine respect for our history, our customs, our sufferings and our blessings? Has he ever revealed that, like most patriotic Americans, he gets “goose bumps” when a band plays “The Star Spangled Banner,” or sheds a tear when he hears a beautiful rendition of “ America the Beautiful?” Does his heart burst with pride when millions of American flags wave on a National holiday – or someone plays “taps” on a trumpet? Has he ever shared the admiration of the military, as we as lovers of those who keep us free, feel when soldiers march by? It is doubtful because Obama did not grow up sharing our experiences or our values. He did not sit at the knee of a Grandfather or Uncle who showed us his medals and told us about the bravery of his fellow troops as they tramped through foreign lands to keep us free. He didn’t have grandparents who told stories of suffering and then coming to America , penniless, and the opportunities they had for building a business and life for their children.

Away from this country as a young child, Obama didn’t delight in being part of America and its greatness. He wasn’t singing our patriotic songs in kindergarten, or standing on the roadside for a holiday parade and eating a hot dog, or lighting sparklers around a campfire on July 4th as fireworks exploded over head, or placing flags on the grave sites of fallen and beloved American heroes.

Rather he was separated from all of these experiences and doesn’t really understand us and what it means to be an American. He is void of the basic emotions that most feel regarding this country and insensitive to the instinctive pride we have in our national heritage. His opinions were formed by those who either envied us or wanted him to devalue theUnited States and the traditions and patriotism that unites us.

He has never given a speech that is filled with calm, reassuring, complimentary, heartfelt statements about all the people in the U.S. Or one that inspires us to be better and grateful and proud that in a short time our country became a leader, and a protector of many. Quite the contrary, his speeches always degenerate into mocking, ridiculing tirades as he faults our achievements as well as any critics or opposition for the sake of a laugh, or to bolster his ego. He uses his Office to threaten and create fear while demeaning and degrading any American who opposes his policies and actions. A secure leader, who has noble self-esteem and not false confidence, refrains from showing such dread of critics and displaying a cocky, haughty attitude.

Mostly, his time seems to be spent causing dissension, unrest, and anxiety among the people of America , rather than uniting us (even though he was presented to us as the “Great Uniter”). He creates chaos for the sake of keeping people separated, envious, aggrieved and ready to argue. Under his leadership Americans have been kept on edge, rather than in a state of comfort and security. He incites people to be aggressive toward, and disrespectful of, those of differing opinions. And through such behavior, Obama has lowered the standards for self-control and mature restraint to the level of street-fighting gangs, when he should be raising the bar for people to strive toward becoming more considerate, tolerant, self-disciplined, self-sustaining, and self-assured.

Not a day goes by that he is not attempting to defy our laws, remove our rights, over-ride established procedures, install controversial appointees, enact divisive mandates, and assert a dictatorial form of power.

· Never has there been a leader of this great land who used such tactics to harm and hurt the people and this country.

· Never have we had a President who spoke with a caustic, evil tongue against the citizenry rather than present himself as a soothing, calming and trustworthy force.

· Never, in this country, have we experienced how much stress one man can cause a nation of people – on a daily basis!

Obama has promoted the degeneration of peace, civility, and quality of cooperation between us. He thrives on tearing us down, rather than building us up. He is the Architect of the decline of America , and the epitome of a Demagogue.

© Maureen Scott

  WANT A FREE HOUSE?

I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a
group of jubilant individuals celebrating the coming implementation of the
health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued:

They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard a young
man exclaim, “Isn’t Obama like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing
the sick.”

A young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, “Yeah, and he does it for free. I
cannot believe anyone would think that a free market would work for health
care.”

Another said, “The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they
can inherit all of the power.  Obama should be made a Saint for what he did
for those of us less fortunate.”

At this, I had more than enough. I arose from my seat, mustering all the
restraint I could find, and approached their table. “Please excuse me; may I
impose upon you for one moment?”

They smiled and welcomed me to the conversation. I stood at the end of their
table, smiled as best I could and began an experiment.

“I would like to give one of you my house. It will cost you no money and I
will pay all of the expenses and taxes for as long as you live there. Anyone
interested?”

They looked at each other in astonishment. “Why would you do something like
that?” asked a young man, “There isn’t anything for free in this world.”

They began to laugh at me, as they did not realize this man had just made my
point.

“I am serious, I will give you my house for free, no money whatsoever. Anyone
interested?”

In unison, a resounding “Yeah” fills the room.

“Since there are too many of you, I will have to make a choice as to who
receives this money-free bargain.”

I noticed an elderly couple was paying attention to the spectacle unfolding
before their eyes, the old man shaking his head in apparent disgust.

“I tell you what; I will give it to the one of you most willing to obey my
rules.”

Again, they looked at one another, an expression of bewilderment on their
faces.

The perky young woman asked, “What are the rules?”

I smiled and said, “I don’t know. I have not yet defined them. However, it is
a free home that I offer you.”

They giggled amongst themselves, the youngest of which said, “What an old
coot. He must be crazy to give away his home. Go take your meds, old man.” I
smiled and leaned into the table a bit further. “I am serious, this is a
legitimate offer.”

They gaped at me for a moment.

“I’ll take it you old fool. Where are the keys?” boasted the youngest among
them.

“Then I presume you accept ALL of my terms then?” I asked.

The elderly couple seemed amused and entertained as they watched from the
privacy of their table. “Oh yeah!  Where do I sign up?”

I took a napkin and wrote, “I give this man my home, without the burden of
financial obligation, so long as he accepts and abides by the terms that I shall
set forth upon consummation of this transaction.”I signed it and handed it to the young man who eagerly scratched out his signature.

“Where are the keys to my new house?” he asked in a mocking tone of voice.

All eyes were upon us as I stepped back from the table, pulling the keys from
pocket and dangling them before the excited new homeowner.

“Now that we have entered into this binding contract, witnessed by all of
your friends, I have decided upon the conditions you are obligated to adhere to
from this point forward. You may only live in the house for one hour a day. You
will not use anything inside of the home. You will obey me without question or
resistance. I expect complete loyalty and admiration for this gift I bestow upon
you. You will accept my commands and wishes with enthusiasm, no matter the
nature. Your morals and principles shall be as mine. You will vote as I do,
think as I do and do it with blind faith. These are my terms. Here are your
keys.”

I reached the keys forward and the young man looked at me dumbfounded.

“Are you out of your mind?  Who would ever agree to those ridiculous
terms?” the young man appeared irritated.

“You did when you signed this contract before reading it, understanding it
and with the full knowledge that I would provide my conditions only after you
committed to the agreement.”

The elderly man chuckled as his wife tried to restrain him. I was looking at
a now silenced and bewildered group of people.

“You can shove that stupid deal up your a** old man. I want no part of it!”
exclaimed the now infuriated young man.

‘You have committed to the contract, as witnessed by all of your friends. You
cannot get out of the deal unless I agree to it. I do not intend to let you free
now that I have you ensnared. I am the power you agreed to. I am the one you
blindly and without thought chose to enslave yourself to. In short, I am your
Master.”

At this, the table of celebrating individuals became a unified group against
the unfairness of the deal.

After a few moments of unrepeatable comments and slurs, I revealed my true
intent.

“What I did to you is what this administration and congress did to you with
the health care legislation. I easily suckered you in and then revealed the real
cost of the bargain. Your folly was in the belief that you can have something
you did not earn, and for that which you did not earn, you willingly allowed
someone else to think for you. Your failure to research, study and inform
yourself permitted reason to escape you.  You have entered into a trap from
which you cannot flee. Your only chance of freedom is if your new Master gives
it to you. A freedom that is given can also be taken away.  Therefore, it
is not freedom at all.”

With that, I tore up the napkin and placed it before the astonished young
man. “This is the nature of your new health care legislation.”

I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation — and was
surprised by applause.The elderly gentleman, who was clearly entertained, shook my hand
enthusiastically and said, “Thank you, Sir. These kids don’t understand Liberty.”

He refused to allow me to pay my bill as he said, “You earned this one. It is
an honor to pick up the tab.”

I shook his hand in thanks, leaving the restaurant somewhat humbled and
sensing a glimmer of hope for my beloved country.

Remember…  Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box[elector's not the "voter's],  the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Author Unknown