Stop Pulling – Start Riding
I DON’T MAKE JOKES. I JUST WATCH THE GOVERNMENT AND REPORT THE FACTS.
WILL ROGERS
When I started this blog it was with the view that there are fewer and fewer of us who are pulling Societies Wagon and more and more who are simply willing to ride in the wagon and let someone else do the work of pulling the wagon along the road of life.
My goal was to perhaps inspire myself and others, with some goodwill and humor, to find ways to spend less time pulling an overloaded wagon while encouraging others to spend more time pulling their own wagon.
However, in the last five years I have noted that the number of people riding in the wagon has grown significantly, while the number pulling the wagon has shrunk by an equal or greater percentage.
Some of this change is no doubt a matter of choice. It is well documented that many have simply taken an “if you can’t beat-em, join-em attitude”. I remember some years back that I owned a T-shirt with the slogan “I have given up in my search for reality and am now seeking a good fantasy”.
Others have diligently searched for work and opportunity only to find there is little of either available in the environment created by the Clowns, Criminals and Lunatics running an overbearing, overreaching and corrupt government in Washington D.C. that wants to regulate every aspect of life while taxing any kind of success into oblivion.
Many of these folks don’t really think in terms of wagons, pullers or riders and instead have gone into a survival mode where they are not looking to ride in my wagon but have become simply willing to vote for whoever will give them a free ticket for a ride on the gravy train without worrying about who will pay for the ticket. It is hard to blame them.
The problem with the above is that what looks like a free ride is in reality often a one way ticket into a form of slavery. Any time we surrender our independence to the supposed good will of others providing for our needs we become dependent and a kind of slave.
We see this in signs at National Parks that tell us not to feed the animals. This is because if we feed them they become unable to feed themselves. We see examples of this in our society in multiple generation Welfare families.
Think about it.
Bob Bandy
