Smart Enough To Get Elected But Not Wise Enough To Rule

Common Sense Commentary:

When I was a boy I read a story something like this:  Once upon a time in Fairhaven, Taxachusetts a man and his wife had four children, two boys and two girls.  they also had two cars and lived on a hill.  The husband was over six feet tall and his wife was under five feet.  One day the four children were arguing about whose turn it was to carry out the trash.  Their parents told them to vote on whose turn it was.  The two boys voted each for one of their sisters and the girls each for one of their brothers.  Now the argument turned to pushing and slapping.  The father intervened in favor of the boys and the mother in favor of the girls.  Soon they too were pushing and slapping.  The husband left and drove away cursing, in his blue car.  His wife followed in her red car and bumped him in the rear.  He wheeled around and smashed her car head on.  They were both arrested and fined for reckless driving and assault with a deadly weapon.  Divorce followed.

The duly elected City Council convened a meeting to pass a law which would prevent such things from happening in their fair city.  A motion was made and passed that it was no longer legal to live on a hill if you owned two cars and had two boys and two girls.  Another motion passed that children could no longer take out the trash. Still another law was passed that it was now illegal for a tall man to marry a short woman. And yet another law passed that arguing children could be charged with assault and battery.  And just to make sure  their town didn't suffer anymore arguing children, they passed a law that brothers and sisters could not vote on anything unless there was at least one more of one than the other.   To avoid further such incidents, they also made it illegal to curse in a car when alone.  Then the honorable Council, to send a strong message, voted unanimously that any family which had one red and one blue car, if convicted, would be sentenced to ten to twenty years in the county jail.

It was a national mystery, in all the papers, "WHY IS FAIRHAVEN DYING?"  The Fairhaven City Council Big Wigs were astonished and angry, that the city's businesses were all  moving off-shore and the citizens with high intelligence were moving to Texas.  They were left with no businesses, no jobs, high taxes, and everybody still living there ... on food stamps and Federal welfare.  Naturally they rallied on Main Street and marched on City Hall for increases in both while shouting in unison, "Fair ain't fair no more in Fairhaven". 

Moral to the story?   Too much Government interference, too much bureaucracy, too many stupid laws, too many Government employees, too many taxes, too many duly elected politicians, and just leave us alone and do your main job .... protecting us not ruling over us.  I lied.  I didn't read it, but I thought it.  Maybe it was a bad dream.

Pass it on. RB