Geniuses & Idiots

Geniuses & Idiots

"If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." By  Junius P. Long Food For Thought If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing  without a license, but not for being in the  country illegally,you live in a country  founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go  on a field trip or take an aspirin in school,  but not to get an abortion, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is evolution,but the government stops a $15-million construction project to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If you have to show identification to board an  airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out  a library book, but not to vote who runs the  government, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding  citizens from owning gun magazines with more  than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets  to the crazy new leaders in Egypt, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce  sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24 ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject  to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If your government believes that the best way to  eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher’s"cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a countryfounded by geniuses but run by idiots. If children are forcibly removed from parents who  discipline them with spankings while children of  addicts are left in filth and drug-infested “homes” you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes  and more government intrusion, while not working  is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself  makes you more "safe" according to the government, you live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If you are offended by this article, you voted for the idiots who are running and ruining our great country.