Who are you Janet?

    /s/  Iron Mike

comflm@yahoo.com wrote:

Great article. Would put up on the Sunday Views if OK. Online sunday paper for comflm reporters. 
Janet

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From: Mike Farquhar 

Subject: Re: Lowell Sun article
Good Morning People,

Please don’t be surprised when Massachusetts papers assume that if you are anti-tax you must be a dreaded Republican.  For over fifty years here government has been the process of demonizing the creators of wealth – i.e. the industrial might of New England’s river valley mills,  and promising to confiscate their ill-gotten gains and spread them around to the non-working poor.

The mill owners eventually gave up and departed, - first for the South, then for Mexico and Asia.  No more ill-gotten gains to confiscate.  Let’s see, who’s next in line?   Aah, of course, the middle class!  Tax them, - we still need to provide for the non-working poor – now in their third and fourth and fifth generations.

What the print press is learning the hard way, i.e. the Globe’s current crisis, - is that the non-working poor do not buy newspapers, and they don’t advertise in them.  Ooops!

But old habits die hard, - and political and social ideals swallowed whole during your college years don’t change much in midlife, if you live in an insular world.  So you keep drinking the Kool-Aid and believing that the poor must be poor because the rich and the middle classes don’t care.  And if you are against taxes you must be one of those upper-class uncaring Republicans.

And in the end,  when paper after paper has shut down for lack of readers and advertisers,  where will all these socially aware and politically enlightened reporters work?  Some will ask The MEssiah for a bailout [more tax dollars stripped from those selfish rich people] because “they are just too important to fail”.  Yeah, right!

Bottom line Folks,  the “Press” as it exists today is neither fair nor our friend.  They are living in their own world, - they see things as they want to see them, - and they report only the low-hanging fruit, - but with the slant they want to put on it.   Years from now you’ll see them living in government warehouses still muttering about “when I was a reporter”.

    /s/  Iron Mike
    Old Soldier, - Still Good for Parts!

       There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some

exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the

Professor  noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his

back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

      The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student

told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while

fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his

country's government and install a communist government

       In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a

strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

       The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said this was no joke.

       'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and

putting corn on the ground.  The pigs find it and begin to come everyday

to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence

down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get

used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side

of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue

until you have all four Side's of the fence up with a gate in the last

side.

The pigs that are used to the free corn start to come through the gate to

eat, and then you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

      Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and

around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating

the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to

forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

       The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees

happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and

keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as

supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies,

dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare,  medicine,

drugs, etc, etc, etc. While we continue to lose our freedoms - just a

little at a time.

       One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free Lunch!

Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you

can do it yourself.

       So, if you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a

problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to

send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to

your way of life then you will probably delete this email, but God help

you when the gate slams shut!

       In this 'very important' election year, listen closely to what the

candidates are promising you - just maybe, you will be able to tell who is

about to slam the gate on America.

       'A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big

enough to take away everything you have.'   Thomas Jefferson