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Comment on: Backyard Grill Blog

The Little Red Hen - 2009

59 Comments
Monday, February, 02, 2009 2:51 PM Georgetwin writes:

Bob's Nephew

Q: What piles up in barnyards AND is spewed by Democrats?

A: It is brown, smells bad and IS NOT mud.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 3:05 PM drpete writes:

I loved it, bob's nephew, until

"Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared..so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for."

When individual initiative died -- and only the hen had any -- there was no longer bread for anyone. The welfare animals had just killed the golden . . . hen, bitten the . . . claw that fed them.

The barnyard had switched from trickle-down economics to trickle-up poverty. Equality of misery . . . and starvation.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 3:16 PM Bobbie writes:

Great Civics lesson.

It's so simple; wonder why it's so impossible to get it through the thick skulls of the libs? Bricks for brains........That's why.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 3:18 PM stefano writes:

I wonder

if the Chinese will loan money to the barn yard so that the animals can buy bread from the Chinese? Will that make the barn yard animals slaves to the Chinese?
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 3:20 PM xpressit writes:

Red hen

Good post. Enjoyable. We got 8 years...and Clinton got 12 million for the memoirs.

Moral could also be "Bush very bad - Obama very good." Everyone seems happy in dusfunctional chaos Obamaland - freshly transplanted from Chicagoland. (where we are told everything old is new again)
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 4:21 PM Jackpine Savage writes:

What a great barnyard

Too bad it's looking more and more like Orwells Animal Farm.

All animals are created equal, but some are More equal than others.

Sound familiar?


Great post BMU!
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 5:10 PM Jesse "The Mind" Norman writes:

I think it's unfair

to call Nancy Pelosi as a cow. She looks more like a kinkajou.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 5:42 PM caday5 writes:

What you forgot to mention

was that the red hen refused to pay livable wages even though the labor of others would make her rich.

Do you really think oversimplifying issues furthers understanding?
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:06 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Georgetwin

A: Socialist Policies
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:10 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Good point, drpete

I can only take credit for posting this, not the authorship. You are right in that lack of production and starvation will be the end result.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:10 PM Cindy writes:

Oversimplifying? That's rich.

and a dead giveaway you like to spare into meaningless oblivion.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:11 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Bobbie, thanks

Simplicity is beyond the means of liberals to understand.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:14 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Hi stefano

Your comment kind of reminds me of the old Tennessee Ernie Ford song "I Owe my Soul to the Company Store". When the money and means of production are owned by a single entity, government, no one is free.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:15 PM Cindy writes:

Misprint Spar

Don't want you to be confused!
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:16 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Thanks, expressit

Hang on. We're in for a bumpy ride.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:21 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Alright, Jack "Animal Farm"

It reminded me of that, too. Yeah, "some are more equal than others". Gheitner, Daschle, Holder, Clinton, etc. If you're a Republican, try to get away with that kind of corruption.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:23 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Jesse,

I can't quite say what I think she looks like. "Otherworldly" comes to mind.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:26 PM bob's my uncle writes:

My old friend C5

I forgot to mention nothing. Since the Little Red Hen was the only one doing work, the others did not earn a portion of the bread. Yet, in the end the government came and bailed them out, anyway.
Now, don't we all feel better.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:27 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Cindy, thanks for stopping by

and gigging old C5 for me.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:42 PM dawndawn writes:

Childhood Stories

Always loved the Little Red Hen and another profound story, Stone Soup.

Truly hope the little Red Hen has a hauser or an AK47 to knock off everyone coming for everything she has with both hands. Not to ruffle any feathers but

This is where we are now. God help us all.


Eric Holder has just been confirmed as AG!

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Monday, February, 02, 2009 6:57 PM caday5 writes:

Bob

First, how did you know I was old?

Second, again, what has hurt the economy of this country the most is the job flight. The group most responsible for the job flight is the investor class. The the coup de gras is that after the investor class cuts the boot straps of the unemployed by moving jobs out of the country, they tell those who are suffering to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Third, a bit of oversimplification here. I don't know of any liberals or even leftists who wouldn't work or tell people not to work. What they do recognize is how interdependent we are in our society.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:15 PM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Classic.

This should be required reading until it is memorized by all Americans!
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:16 PM Garnet92 writes:

Beautiful illustration of so many

free-loaders. There MUST be a disparity in standard of living between those working productively and those free-loading off of the taxpayers. If libs/lefties have their way, we'll reduce that disparity so much that it will no longer make any sense for anyone to work. Of course, it can never get to that point - revolt will come before that point is reached. In the story, if carried to a logical end, so many "red hens" would eventually stop baking that NO ONE would have any bread.

In the end, the farm would declare bankruptcy, would be plowed under and an Obama Enlightenment commune erected on the site.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:22 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Hello dawndawn!

Good to see ya girl. Ah, yes. "Stone Soup". If I remember it right, all the ingredients for the soup were brought together by deceit and trickery. The stone was a ruse. Now what lesson can we learn from this?
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:25 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Thanks GunnyG

This is certainly not too hard for the average human being to understand.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:43 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Here we go again, C5

You are the never-ending contrarian,aren't you.
First, I put your age at about 50 something, maybe older since you once wrote that you managed to evade military service in Vietnam. I was using "old" as a southern colloquialism, like "old boy".
Second, you sound like an old LP record with a skip in it, to me. "Government - good, independence - bad"
Third, you don't seem to understand basic human nature. "Why buy the cow when the milk is free"
In other words, "Why risk an investment, if there's no profit to be had or at least severely limited by taxation, and everything will be given to me, anyway."
Interdependence? Yes, to a certain extent. I trust my neighbors to help in a pinch. I try not to personally ask anything of government aside from services I am paying for. Dependence on the Gov't? I trust the government less, no matter who's in charge. All I can see in my dealings with the government is the taxes that are confiscated every dam year. And now I see that they want to take more. Always.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:48 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Garnet, hey buddy

Yer right! Dependence upon the government is soon followed by poverty, then slavery. Haven't some called our welfare system, "the new plantation"?
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 8:56 PM caday5 writes:

Young Bob

I don't believe gov't good and independence bad, I believe that all sin, regardless of whether they are in the public or private sector.

The difference between the public and private sectors is that those in the public sector are directly accountable to the voters while those in the private sector are, at best, indirectly accountable to the voter through regulation.

The key difference between our positions is that you believe that each person is only responsible for themselves while I believe that we live in an interdependent society where we are responsible for ourselves to a point and we are all responsible to each other to a point. That interdependence implies the need for regulation through a democratically elected gov't.

The problem that we all have is that there are those in both the private and public sectors who are trying to accumulate and then wield as much power as they can. Centralized power, either in the public or private sector, is the enemy of democracy
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 9:04 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Whatever, C5

I ain't no spring chicken, myself.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 9:07 PM The Crawfish writes:

George Orwell

was a future-seer. Can you say "Animal Farm"???
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 10:38 PM Keith Arnold writes:

No One Will Go Hungry

I wouldn't worry too much about anyone in the barnyard going hungry after no one has any motivation or incentive to bake bread, and everyone expects someone else to do it for them.

At least, not while there's still chicken that can be put on the menu.

Seems to me that once no one is producing, but everyone gets hungry, then someone starts looking like an entree. The Little Red Hen better be packin' heat.
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 10:47 PM Gray Ghost writes:

$20,000,000.00 for autobiographies!

Gee whiz! Where did I go wrong?

C5: You idiot. The Little Red Hen offered to hire them. They refused. Plus your comments at 8:56pm on 02/02/09 are communistic. I heard the same things in the 1960's from the USSR. (I'm 58.)
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Monday, February, 02, 2009 11:07 PM caday5 writes:

Gray Ghost

I didn't say that the red didn't offer them jobs, in fact I said the opposite. I did say that the wages offered were not livable.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 12:04 AM bob's my uncle writes:

C5, I guess you didn't read

the story carefully. All of the characters, except the Little Red Hen, are independently wealthy, yet the Little Red Hen was compelled to share the bread she had labored to make with them. That is your Socialist Utopian Paradise.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 12:07 AM bob's my uncle writes:

Crawfish,

I think I hated reading Orwell's books in school, but it's true, those stories stick with you. Thanks for stopping by.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 12:12 AM bob's my uncle writes:

Hey Keith,

Your comment makes me think of the Warner Brothers cartoons with Foghorn Leghorn having to fight off dogs and chicken hawks trying to eat him.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 12:28 AM bob's my uncle writes:

Hey Gray Ghost

Thanks for the comment. There's at least one thing C5 doesn't like to account for. It's that when one of our fellow citizens does something stupid, then expects the rest of us to pay for it, we ain't gonna be happy about it. Like Fertile Myrtle in California with the octuplets and six more at home. Somehow I don't think she has or has had the wherewithal to take care of all those kids herself. Except now she's going to get a book deal, maybe a television deal and make lots of money. Think she's gonna pay back the taxpaying citizens the welfare she's received?
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 2:21 AM caday5 writes:

Bob

And maybe you should read real life, none of us are independently wealthy. Unless we live on completely self-sustaining farms, we benefit and suffer from others. For example, investors who hit it big because they either didn't pay livable wages or moved jobs overseas to sweatshops, didn't become wealthy overnight, they got wealthy off the sacrifice of others. This underpaying a group of people is a mainstay of capitalism.

So, how realistic is your story of the little hen?
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 7:43 AM Curtal Friar writes:

bob's my uncle

Great analogy.

I think another good comparison for Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi would be the Three Stooges. The only question is which one of them would be Curly.

LMAO
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 2:01 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Curtal Friar

"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk." :^)
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 2:08 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Hey C5

I'm thinking of taking a leave of absence from my job. I'm going to need some help with my mortgage, car, utility, and gas payments. I'm feeling interdependent, so I thought I could give you an address to send me a check while my income is curtailed. Just remember, this is strictly voluntary, I wouldn't want to force you to make my payments. Just a friendly request. ;^)
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 2:28 PM caday5 writes:

Young Bob I

What I find interesting is the your definition of socialism. Some conservatives apply an umbrella definition to the term. For example, with the bailout situation, that the gov't would automatically support business, which has been done for decades now, instead of letting it stand on its own is called socialism.

There are several problems here. First, other practices that you would call socialism go entirely in a different direction. For example, if we consider how health care is financed in both the UK or Canada, which involves 2 different gov't run systems, you would be using the term socialism referring to a system that is both gov't funded and regulated to some degree. The same would apply if a country or state was paying for education, like in the public schools. Here, wealth is being spread to a wide sector of the population and with that wealth comes regulations.

But let the gov't give the banking industry bailouts without accountability or regulations where wealth is being consolidated rather than spread out, and you cry socialism again.

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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 2:28 PM caday5 writes:

Young Bob II

I suppose in a Black/white world where you either stand entirely on your own two feet or any dependence no matter how slight is called socialism, you have a case. But at that point, you have to resign yourself to living in a socialist world. We all rely on gov't programs, such as the interstate highway system, at some point in our lives.

But more importantly, unless we live on completely self-sustaining farms so that we produce everything we use or consume, we cannot say that we stand entirely on our own two feet. That is your dilemma.

Finally, the bailouts are nothing more than the gov't coming out of the closet with its support of business. Prior to the bailouts, gov't would use policies and the Pentagon budget to support business. This is a standard practice that described in the 1st half of the 20th century by Helen Keller and Marine Major General Smedley Butler. In fact, Butler wrote a couple of pieces about this practice called "War is a Racket"
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 3:36 PM bob's my uncle writes:

C5, Does this mean

that you won't be sending me a check to help out with my expenses? Darn! I was really counting on that.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 6:17 PM caday5 writes:

Bob

All requests for donations must go through the wife since she handles the finances--she is bothered by the fact that I don't record anything when I do the finances.

But be of good cheer, according to the conservatives at townhall, they are very benevolent toward charitable causes as long as you don't force them to donate.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 8:49 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Just remember, C5

Your "contributions" would not be tax-deductible. It's just the voluntary "helpin' a brothah out".

I am drawing a distinction between VOLUNTARILY helping your fellow man, and the INVOLUNTARY method which is done through excessive taxation and redistribution. And that with far less efficiency and economy.

Bureaucracy and waste eats up more than 50% of the government welfare dollar. Most private agencies operate at a far higher efficiency rating.

I'm just saying.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 9:20 PM caday5 writes:

Bob

by your words, you should be really upset because the gov't has been, way before the bailouts, taking your tax dollars and giving to the rich
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 10:05 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Look, C5

There are certain things Government should do. Provide for the common defense is the first and most important. When the gov't buys military hardware that protects this country, I'm a happy camper. Roads and certain infrastructure are second. Parks and reserves, maybe. The rest should be left to the states and local municipalities. If individual states or towns want to set up social services for some who CANNOT fend for themselves, fine. Government is too big, bloated and growing bigger all the time, eventually absorbing or controlling everything.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 10:30 PM caday5 writes:

bob

but the gov't can spend too much money on defense and risk the country's future by doing so. And the gov't can practice policies that unnecessarily or even countproductively uses the military. With Iraq, it was a bonanza of contracts and a loss of accountability for an illegal and immoral invasion that killed up to 1.2 million Iraqis and displaced 4.7 million others, increased world terrorism, made us more vulnerable economically, and provided a precedence for other countries to follow--Russia's invasion of Georgia.

In addition, there is a revolving door between military career and working in the private sector that lends itself to corruption.

Rather than assuming that the gov't is responsible for defending us each time it uses force, the use of that force must be thoroughly examined to see if it was justified. And considering the consequences of lives lost, the burden of proof rests on those who want to use force.
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Tuesday, February, 03, 2009 11:57 PM bob's my uncle writes:

Corruption? Revolving door?

Sounds like Congress and K-street to me. Seems to me that the only way to get rid of the corruption is to get rid of the human beings.
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Wednesday, February, 04, 2009 12:17 AM caday5 writes:

Bob

It is also military and private contractors. Your point is correct regarding how to get rid of corruption. Corruption like violence and hatred, to name a few, are human traits. These traits cut across ethnicity, political party lines, religious groups, and ideologies.
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Wednesday, February, 04, 2009 12:47 AM bob's my uncle writes:

Alright, C5

You keep an eye on the "military-industrial complex", and I'll keep an eye on the liberal-socialist politicians. When the real oppression starts, one of us is gonna know where its coming from.
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Wednesday, February, 04, 2009 8:00 AM caday5 writes:

Hasn't the real oppression

started already. Just ask those people who have lost their jobs and are losing their homes. Certainly they have freedom of speech. But their words are never heard because their gov't has been listening exclusively to Corporate America.
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Wednesday, February, 04, 2009 9:20 AM drpete writes:

I loved the story, BMU.

I'm only sorry that the comments section devolved to such drivel. Caday5 shows so clearly that George Will nailed it with, "For conservatives seeing is believing while for liberals believing is seeing."

Of course Ron White also had C5 pegged with, "You can't fix stupid."
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Thursday, February, 05, 2009 11:42 AM MSagacious writes:

Little Red Hen - A Regan Radio Address..

I love the way you updated this old Reagan radio address to match America's present, Socialist ideologies. It's a perfect analogy of our Country's current mindset.

The sad part is, most of us who read it understand the mockery and sarcasm behind it... those on the left don't get it - they are probably wondering what the punch line is as it makes perfect sense to them!


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Thursday, February, 05, 2009 12:17 PM caday5 writes:

The other tragic part is

believing that Reagan knew what he was talking about
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Thursday, February, 05, 2009 1:06 PM bob's my uncle writes:

What is tragic

is that you think Chompsky and other Communist/Socialist do.
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Thursday, February, 05, 2009 3:38 PM caday5 writes:

Bob

What is really tragic is that that you make groundless insults in place of rational discussion.

I think what Chomsky has said has been verified by both the Bush and Obama bailout/stimulus plans. Do you really want to be an apologist for those in the private sector who are taking money from the public sector?
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Friday, February, 06, 2009 4:28 PM davecatbone writes:

yikes

the Church of the Painful truth is in session....
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