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May 2, 2011 8:27:20 AM PDT
Subject: Monkey Business If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a
banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the
banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the
banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold
water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ...
all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another
monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent
it..
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new
monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all
of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and
attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new
one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous
newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth,
then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is
attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they
were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are
participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining
monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of
the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time,
all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.. |
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May 4, 2011 12:50:10 AM PDT
That is a perfect description of all members of Congress and also the House of Representatives.
Send it to neutral newspaper and pass this on. Since we have to tighten our belts, that should apply to then as well. Let's reduce their wages and start a fund for the homeless and hungry citizens of this country.
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May 4, 2011 8:47:24 AM PDT
How true, how true. Thank you for the belly laugh this morning. The world is in a flux of change constantly, without change we stagnate and begin to stink. We the people can figure that out, why can't congress up and down the ladder do the same?
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May 4, 2011 12:39:53 PM PDT
That is the perfect description of Local Government as well.
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May 6, 2011 9:08:15 PM PDT
"Let's reduce their wages and start a fund for the homeless and hungry citizens of this country."
Report: 45 Million Americans Went Hungry in 2009
(Nov. 16) -- Last year "food insecurity" amongst Americans remained at the highest levels it has ever been since the government began monitoring hunger fifteen years ago, according to a new federal report.
Despite the fact that recession appeared to be easing in some places around the country, authorities classified about 45 million Americans as "food insecure" during 2009, and about 6.8 million as having "very low food security."
"This is unthinkable. It's like we are living in a Third World country," food relief organization Feeding America president Vicky Escarra told the Washington Post.
Similarly, the number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May, shortly before the program was cut by almost 12 billion in August, though those cuts will not go into effect until 2014. Food stamps received a large boost from the 2008 stimulus bill, both to encourage spending and to alleviate the worst of the recession.
Paradoxically, obesity rates also increased in almost half of the states in the same year, without decreasing in a single state, suggesting that a poor economy may be taxing not just the quantity, but the quality of the American food supply as well.
The group hardest hit by hunger appears to be young mothers raising children alone, as well as blacks and Hispanics, who were twice as likely to be food insecure as whites.
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/11/16/report-45-million-americans-went-hungry-in-2009/
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