Ice Cream anyone??

ONE OF THE BEST EXPLANATIONS OF WHY OBAMA WON THE ELECTION

 

   From a teacher in the Nashville area - "We are worried about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream"

    The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president.

    We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

    To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

    The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother.

   The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. 

  Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat down.    

    Now it was Olivia's turn to speak. Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down.

The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely would say more. She did not have to.

 A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it. She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.

  Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide. Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds.

They want ice cream.

The other 48 percent know they're going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess."

Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone --- that they have not first taken away from someone else.

 

Often times, analogies can over simplify a matter, (and, or,) be improperly applied, however the following analogy, though simple and to the point, seems to be fair and accurate to me.

 

The ending anonymous quote, reminds me of a quote by Gerald Ford; "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything you have...." this quote has often been attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

 

His actual quote was; "The natural process of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."

 

The above analogy illustrates, that all things must be paid for, as nothing is free, but what it fails to mention, is that the ice-cream that President Obama wants to give, is not only prohibitively expensive, it tastes so bad, nobody will want to eat it.