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Most everyone if familiar with the story of the Grasshopper and The Ant. In the ORIGINAL VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter while the grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that Obama’s program of socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

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Could not be any simpler to understand than that. Can you imagine what would happen to young college students who might aspire to become doctors? What will they do when they find out that they would have to study 8 years in college and another 3 or 4 years of internship just to make the same income that their high school graduate classmates make 2 years after high school as menial workers.

This is the problem that England and other socialist European countries are experiencing now. An astute individual will always eventually ask himself the question, “Why work that hard when there is no commensurate reward for your effort?” The Marxist idiom, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”, sounds great, but it is a lie. Never in the history of the world has there ever been a nation that prospers for a significant time under a socialist system of government. Only when the citizens are allowed to prosper, or fail, without government intervention do nations become and remain great.

Chuck

Posted to Craig’s List Personals:

I hope you somehow come across this message. I’d like to apologize.

I didn’t expect you to mess your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket Truth is, I was wearing the jacket for a reason that evening, and it wasn’t that cold outside.

You see, my girlfriend had just bought me that Kimber Model 1911 .45 ACP pistol for Christmas, and we had just picked up a shoulder holster for it that evening. Beautiful pistol, eh?

It’s a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head, isn’t it? I know it probably wasn’t a great deal of fun walking back to wherever you’d come from with that brown sludge flopping about in your pants. I’m sure it was even worse since you also ended up leaving your shoes, cell-phone, and wallet with me. I couldn’t have you calling up any of your buddies to come help you try to mug us again.

I took the liberty of calling your mother, or “Momma” as you had her listed in your cell, and explaining to her your situation. I also bought myself and four other people in the gas station this morning a tank full of gas on your credit card. The guy with the big motor home took 150 gallons and was extremely grateful! I gave your shoes to one of the homeless guys over by Vinnie Van Go Go’s, along with all of the cash in your wallet.

I threw the wallet in a fancy pink  “pimp mobile” parked at the curb after I broke the windshield and side window out and keyed the drivers side. I called a bunch of phone sex numbers from your cell-phone. They’ll be on your bill in case you’d like to know which ones. Ma Bell just shut down the line, and I’ve only had the phone for a little over a day now, so I don’t know what’s going on with that. I hope they haven’t permanently cut off your service.

I could only get in two threatening phone calls to the DA’s office and one to the FBI with it. The FBI guy was really pissed and we had a long chat (I guess while he traced the number).

I’d also like to apologize for not killing you and instead making you walk back home humiliated. I’m hoping that you’ll reconsider your choice of path in life. Next time you might not be so lucky..

- Alex -

P.S. Remember this motto……  an armed society is a polite society!

There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat. He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner.

As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it.
The rabbit ran away.

Then he saw a squirrel and fired a shot at the squirrel but missed it. The squirrel disappeared into a hole in a cottonwood tree.

As he went further, he saw a large wild ‘Tom’ turkey in the tree, but he had only one bullet remaining. A voice spoke to him and said,
‘Pray first, aim high, and stay focused.’

However, at the same time, he saw a deer Which was a better kill. He brought the gun down and aimed at the deer.

But, then he saw a rattlesnake between his legs about to bite him. So he naturally brought the gun down further to shoot the rattlesnake.

Still, the voice said again to him, ‘I said, ‘Pray first, Aim high, and Stay focused.’
So, the man decided to listen to God’s voice.

He prayed, then aimed the gun high up in the tree, and shot the wild turkey.
The bullet bounced off the turkey and killed the deer. The handle fell off the gun, hit the snake in the head, and killed it.

And, when the gun went off, it knocked him into a pond. When he stood up to look around, He had fish in all his pockets, a dead deer, and a turkey for his family to eat.

The snake (Satan) was dead simply because the man listened to God.

Moral of the story:

Pray first before you do anything,
Aim and shoot high in your goals,
And stay focused on God.

Never let others discourage you concerning your past. The past is exactly that, ‘the past.’

Live every day one day at a time,
And remember that only God knows our future, And that He will not put you through any more than you can bear.

Do not look to man for your blessings, But look to the doors that only He has prepared in advance for you in your favor. Wait, be still, and patient: keep God first, And everything else will follow.

After many years of hunting and fishing trips it takes something special for you to remember one particular one for over 50 years. I had such a trip way back in ‘57 or ‘58 that will always be etched in my brain. I had many trips where I caught lots of fish or shot a lot of squirrels or rabbits, but none I remembered so well as this one.

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