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Friday, April 29. 2016

"Timid and industrious animals"

Re Sen. Coburn's speech to Congress:

"America doesn’t trust you anymore. That’s the truth... and that’s not one party, that’s both" raged former Senator Tom Coburn during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs this week. As Free Beacon reports, Coburn, making his first appearance before the Senate since his farewell speech when he retired in late 2014, pleaded with Congress to take action to reform government, quoting de Tocqueville, that an ever more centralized control reduces its citizenry "to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

What if most people are happy to be sheep with a government-shepherd?

Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 16:47 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I don't think people are content to be sheep. But I also think they don't realize this because it seems easier to be a sheep...but if they are forced to no longer be sheep, they find that there is more capability in themselves than they thought and also a much happier life. People are better off mentally and physically when they work on a regular basis. Whether that be gardening or laying pipe. All of it is for the good of the soul. God did not intend for us to be layabouts living off the work of others.

#1 MissT on 2016-04-29 17:45 (Reply)

re What if most people are happy to be sheep with a government-shepherd?

What if most people don't want to be sheep but have no choice? What if their elected masters don't abide by their wishes?

#2 feeblemind on 2016-04-29 18:16 (Reply)

I just don't believe this. When I talk to people about how they're going to vote and why, or why they're not going to bother to vote, or why they don't think it's important to be involved in the political process or local governance, or why they don't think they should have to deal with their own neighbors and merchants and so on without government assistance, I can only conclude that many people are completely content to be sheep. I'd love to think that we're not going down without the best fight we know how to put up, but my experience tells me it's not so.

#2.1 Texan99 on 2016-04-30 09:51 (Reply)

It's not about the sheep - it's about the sheepdogs. Sheepdogs that will bite the hands that beat them once too often.

Two shepherds talking in a field

"It's not about the sheep you idiot, no one cares about the sheep. One of these days your going to screw a sheep and find it's a wolf in sheeps clothing, and there you'll be, with your pants around your ankles and your dick in your hand."

#3 vince on 2016-04-29 20:02 (Reply)

We will make sure all of you sheep are sheep.
First all of you "sheep" need to register your firearms
next you will have to pay a BIG fee in order to get a
license to keep your firearm (said Hillary)
All persons caught with a unlicensed firearm will be
imprisoned for life.

#3.1 Ron Spins on 2016-04-29 20:25 (Reply)

This won't change until the shooting starts and the bodies hit the floor. Everyone knows this.

#4 Vanderleun (Link) on 2016-04-29 20:10 (Reply)

We don't even trust them to reform government even if they had good intentions. Every bill passed has something in it for big business, Wall street, foreign countries, non-citizens, the UN and other rent seekers. I think we are seeing the last gasps of a once great country and everyone who can is grabbing all that they can and heading for the high ground.

#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-04-29 20:45 (Reply)

I liked Coburn and wish he was still in Congress. I also wish he had seen the potential of Trump and joined up to help him govern. He will need a lot of help and Coburn would be a big one.

#6 Mike K (Link) on 2016-04-29 22:55 (Reply)

How about VP? I know, I know, not strategic.

He's right and it took a Trump to pull back the curtain, not only expose the skimming class but their servants and shills: pols, media, activists, consultants.

#7 Exasperated on 2016-04-30 06:59 (Reply)

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