Jeff Foxworthy.

A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots

Attributed to Jeff Foxworthy:

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not
for entering and remaining in the country illegally - you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or to take
an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion - you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy
liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for
who runs the government - you might live in a nation that was founded by
geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning
gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter
jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt - you might live in a nation that was
founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation's largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not
one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat -
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by
idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a
wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a
burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched - you
might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of
dollars of debt is to spend trillions more - you might live in a nation that
was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher
is "cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade
school is perfectly acceptable - you might live in a nation that was founded
by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government
regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps,
WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones -
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by
idiots.

If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide
incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment checks,
without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was diligently
sought, but couldn't be found - you might live in a nation that was founded
by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen
TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all
plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he
defaults on his mortgage - you might live in a nation that was founded by
geniuses but is run by idiots.

If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you
more "safe" according to the government - you might live in a nation that
was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

What a country!

Charlie.

I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE WITH CHARLIE ON THIS! Boston Bombing Result of Government Incompetence and Political Correctness By Charlie Daniels The thought occurred to me the other day, "I wonder how Dzhokhar Tsarneav feels about his life today?" as he's lying in a Boston hospital with a hole shot in his throat, hovering between life and death, unable to speak and even unable to find even one sympathetic eye to look into, surrounded by people who would like nothing better than to throw him into a swamp full of alligators and copperheads. His brother dead, his family thousands of miles away, and nothing to look forward to but being strapped to a gurney and given a cocktail of life-ending drugs or at the very least never breathing another breath of free air in a prison surrounded by the worst of the worst, many of whom would love to hang his scalp on their belt. A handsome 19-year-old living in the freest nation on earth with all the perks and advantages of being a full-fledged American citizen who in the period of three days was reduced to a scumbag that will forever be remembered for callously murdering an eight-year-old child. What kind of religion and what kind of god advocates the wholesale slaughter of ordinary citizens, what kind of clergy send young men to a gruesome death promising them a place in some male-dominated sensuous paradise where they will while away the eons in the arms of multiple virgins? Apologists claim that Islam is a peaceful religion and, yet their holy writings, the Koran and the Hadiths of Mohammed, have multiple references to destroying unbelievers and probably 90 percent or so of the terror plots on the planet are carried out by Muslim extremists. If Islam is truly a peaceful religion, where is the united outrage from the Muslim community? Where is the outcry from the huge enclaves of Muslims who live in America, where are the stinging proclamations from the mosques denouncing the violent taking of innocent life? Where are the envoys from Islamic nations standing up on the floor of the United Nations roundly denouncing the violence of the rogues they claim have perverted their faith? The truth of the matter is that there are none, or next to none as the American Muslim community tends to whistle through the graveyard on the subject, never quite condoning, never quite condemning, spouting platitudes about how America doesn't understand Islam and how the majority of Muslims are good American citizens who are swept up in the dragnet of anti-Islamic sentiment every time one of their number pulls off or tries to pull off one of their murderous escapades. Well speaking just for myself and applying a little cowboy logic to the subject, I say you can't walk the middle line on this one, you're either a Muslim American who stands up for America and denounces these terrorist murderers or you're a Muslim living in America who agrees with them. There can be no middle ground here and that also goes for the president who walks on eggshells when it comes to anything to do with Islam. His choice of words, his choice of descriptions, even his depictions of the terror itself are tempered with phrases like "let's don't jump to conclusions" placating rhetoric and never mentioning "Islamic" and "terrorist" in the same breath. Mr. President, with all due respect, how are you going to solve a problem if you refuse to even identify it? The incident in Boston should never have happened, in my opinion, and is the result of a government riddled with incompetence and political correctness. Tamerlan Tsarneav should never have slipped through the cracks after no less than Russia warned our government about him; he should have had a red flag on his back from that day forth and yet our Homeland Security apparatus left him free to roam the streets of America to build bombs and murder and maim American citizens. This is unacceptable, we need hard-edged men and women running the defense of our homeland, bold and capable, unafraid of being condemned for profiling if it comes to that, a person with the guts of Patton, the guile of MacArthur and the iron will of Schwarzkopf. Fire is best fought with fire and, until we get some people with fire in their bellies in charge of the security of this nation, we're in big trouble. What do you think? God Bless America Charlie Daniels