Subject: A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots
I think this guy is on to something
Jeff Foxworthy
A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots
by Jeff Foxworthy:
If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and ...remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders inEgypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
What a country!
How about we give God a reason to continue blessingAmerica!
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Yawn. Lame, with a heavy dose of straw-man and a topping of boring. Not to mention that its the worst kind of unoriginal: co opting someone else's schtick and then making it 100 times worse.
If you live in a country where 1% of the population control 43% of the wealth and they use it to spout out propaganda that around 50% of the population buys into — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
Actually, I wish our government did believe that. You don't cut your way out of a recession; you spend your way out.
If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
Pernicious propoganda.
The 1% made out like the crooks, cheats, liars & bandits they are from the economic crash. Now they send out this lie.
Everyone I know who's lost a job has spent a lot of time & energy searching for a new job. The economy may be slightly improving lately (I hope so), but jobs are still not plentiful.
Everyone I know on Unemployment benefits has to prove in detail how many jobs they've applied for. I don't know anyone who didn't have to show what they've done to look for a new job.
Nearly everyone who's been employed PAID into Unemployment; that's what the funds are there for: to assist you if you need it.
I believe we've seen a version of this before, and it may even be falsely attributed to Foxworthy. Too lazy to find out.
IMPEACH THE LIAR-In-CHIEF!!
"No signing statement to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law."
(Obama lies to Keep Czars)
"No "boots" on the ground Libya"
"Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions hat helped trigger the financial crisis."
(Obama Lies About Financial Reform Bill)
"If you like the health care plan you have you can keep it" (TownHall)
"We have run out of places in the U.S. to drill for oil"
(Obama's oval speech in June 2010)
Obama says "he'll save average family $8,000 in gas"
www.obamalies.net/obama-says-hell-save-average-family-8000-in-gas.html
"The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed." (Politifact.com)
"Planned Parenthood provides mammograms" LIE!
"I think it's important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration."
(ABCnews.com/politics)
We can go ON and ON and ON...
IMPEACH The LIAR!
Why did you have to pay over a $Million to HIDE your Records? Transparency? LIAR!!
IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!!! IMPEACH!!
I see the idiocy continues with another tried and true RWF formula: That of attempting to falsely tether RW invective to sagacious folk heroes of sorts because their own standard bearers have been flagged as nutjobs by anybody other than the far-right fringe.
At first they aimed low and attached them to names that had the possibility of being plausibly conservative but now they're just sticking them to everybody. I wouldn't be surprised if the next RWF I get quotes Ghandi about the need for an authoritarian police state to make 'murka safer.
Aaaaaand cue the sock puppet troll...
Why not?
Republican Jesus fucking HATES poor people.
"LET ME SAY IT AS SIMPLY AS I CAN:
TRANSPARENCY AND THE RULE OF LAW
WILL BE THE TOUCHSTONES OF THIS
PRESIDENCY."
Lets see that "TRANSPARENCY and TOUCHSTONES from YOUR $MILLION LOCKED UP Personal Records.... FRAUD!
Who gives a sh*t about Obama's allegedly "locked up personal records"??? That's where these trolls gin up rightwing rubes & baffle 'em with bullsh*t.
Who cares about that crap? It's irrelevant.
What about locked up Bradley Manning for revealing War Crimes of Obama? Oh yeah, that's right. From the rightwing sock puppet paid for by Kochs: crickets.
Yet another example of how the propoganda works.
Invoking Godwin's Law here...Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the Fox News crowd and their following of mindless rubes.
Nice article Obat Bius
Thank you for sharing
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