Posted by
Dave Kooker on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:38:00 PM
On this past early Saturday afternoon, I had replaced a bathroom ceiling due to the effects of poor plumbing repairs that I guess were performed twenty years ago in one of my Duplexes. Part of my landlord’s job is to undo all the substandard work that was performed before I purchased the property. I had some time to waste while I was waiting for the second coat of drywall mud to dry so I drove over to my favorite cigar store to enjoy a fine hand-rolled Nicaraguan cigar and catch up with on all the ‘Men’ talk with the fellow cigar smoking patrons. I noticed there was a new patron in the store. The gentleman was an American Indian from a Seneca tribe reservation in Kansas visiting Jacksonville Florida.
The conservation over time weaved back and forth between economics & politics and anything in between. The American Indian gentleman decided to break the tension in the air and change the subject a bit. Since the whole group was tired of discussing National politics, we figured the Indian was just going to tell a joke to lighten up the mood in the cigar store. The Indian titled the story ‘Indian Crabs’.
Two little boys decide to go crabbing and walk to the river. One little boy has a bucket with a top on it and the other has a bucket without a top. The boy with the bucket that has a top on it said to the other little boy, ‘Aren’t you worried about your caught crabs escaping without a top on the bucket?’. The boy with the bucket without the top responded, ‘No, I am catching Indian crabs, the escaping crab will be quickly pulled down by the fellow Indian crabs in the bucket’. The Indian then looked at all of us and stated, that folks is the source of America’s problem.
From the powerful short story, it made me realize how mentally sick this country has become in the name of government compassion and Liberalism. The population under government entitlements and those willing to submit themselves to an Orwellian control is ever growing. By the voting habits of voters, I would suspect that we are close to the 50% mark. The sickness or obsession of those under government control to actively pursue others who are trying to climb out of misery and pull them back into the cesspool of misery and mediocrity. Those who spite success and achievement of others are willing to strip themselves of the ability to succeed just for the explicit purpose of eliminating another’s ability to achieve and succeed.
So many of this country’s symptoms of poor economic and moral health can be traced back to the root of this National mental illness. Don’t like the fact another is doing well, progressively increase the tax rates on the high achievers. Don’t like the fact your child is failing in school, force lower educational standards on other schools or force busing of high achievers to inter-city schools. Don’t like the moral code of the Judeo-Christian religion, ban it and force everyone to submit to Islam so everyone is miserable.
I sure hope in my lifetime, this country has the ability and willingness to fight off this mental illness before it is too late.
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