Back in January of 2011 Dan Mitchell of International Liberty wrote a very important little article called Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote.
It's a joke and an analogy and it's a true story. If you really understand the little Tale of the Coyote, you will be able to recognize President Obama's economic policies as California and Mitt Romney's economic policies as Texas.
Once you get this little story down you will know what to do.
CALIFORNIA: The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out, bites the Governor and attacks his dog.
1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie “Bambi” and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is only doing what is natural.
2. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 for testing it for diseases.
4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is free of dangerous animals.
6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds to implement a “coyote awareness” program for residents of the area.
7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
8. The Governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack somehow and for letting the Governor attempt to intervene.
9. Additional cost to State of California: $75,000 to hire and train a new security agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.
10. PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files suit against the State.
TEXAS: The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A Coyote jumps out, bites the Governor’s leather boot, and attacks his dog.
1. The Governor shoots the coyote with his State-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow
point cartridge.2. The buzzards eat the dead coyote.
And that, boys and girls, is why California is broke………..And, more importantly, why too much government doesn’t work.
Now if you want a good job with a good future, you've got to hope that there will be plenty of companies around offering a lot of jobs. And in order to have plenty of companies in this country offering lots of jobs, they need less big government regulation. If they are too regulated by big government, they'll just move out of the country. Somebody in India or China will have the job you could have had.
Now go vote in November for less government!!! Vote for Romney.
That is good. I saw it a while back, but had forgotten about it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder.