Posted on 03/19/2002 9:23:00 AM PST by MightyMouth
BIG GOVERNMENT AS WILE E. COYOTE by Michael Cloud (c.) 2000
Ever watch Road Runner cartoons?
They explain the secret of government.
Road Runner is the Free Market. Road Runner moves fast and fends for himself.
He's self-reliant. An individualist. He doesn't interfere with others. He's free...as a bird.
Wile E. Coyote is Big Government. Wile E. Coyote wants to live off Road Runner.
Acme Products are Big Government programs.
Every episode, Wile E. Coyote unveils a brilliant new Acme Product to get the Road Runner.
Acme Products have great blueprints and schematics and seem foolproof.
Every episode, the brilliant new Acme Product fails, smashes, crashes, explodes, careens, short-circuits, jams, and collapses. Wile E. Coyote is folded, spindled, mutilated, and crushed by the Acme Product. Usually after the hapless coyote falls half a mile into a ravine.
Wile E. Coyote is hopelessly optimistic that the next Acme Product will get Road Runner. In spite of the fact that every Acme Product ever built has failed to get the bird.
Acme Products makes huge profits selling these impossible schemes and unworkable products to a Coyote too dumb to notice that he never gets Road Runner - and always gets smashed by the new Acme Product.
Wile E. Coyote is spending a fortune buying the next Acme Product. A tax-funded fortune. For an Acme Product and Coyote that will fail and fall on us.
Meanwhile, Road Runner eludes and evades, outruns and outsmarts Wile E. Coyote and the new Acme Product.
If the Coyote realized that Acme doesn't work, he might stop wasting our money...and maybe even stop bugging Road Runner.
The folks working at Acme could do something productive.
Road Runner could run farther and faster -- and maybe even safely stop for birdseed now and then.
Road Runner will never be safe until he permanently shuts down Acme Products -- and demands that Wile E. Coyote keeps his hands off Roadrunners.
Next time someone proposes a new government program, next time someone calls for continuing to support and sustain a government program, remember Wile E. Coyote, label it "Acme Products" and answer...
"Beep-Beep."
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Chuck Jones, creator of Wile E. Coyote and The Roadrunner, died on February 22, 2002. He was 89 years old.
"I'm a lifetime fan of Chuck Jones and his family of cartoon creations," said Michael Cloud. "While many Libertarians learned the dangers of Big Government from Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, or Harry Browne, I got the inside scoop about Big Government and government social programs from Wile E. Coyote and the bureaucrats at Acme. Thank you, Chuck Jones."
There is the answer in a nutshell. All we need is the good folks at Warner Brothers to take over script-writing for life and the real-world. Because we all know that the Acme products don't fail because the story-writers wrote it that way or its funny, they fail because they truly are real-life representations of government.
"I'm a lifetime fan of Chuck Jones and his family of cartoon creations," said Michael Cloud. "While many Libertarians learned the dangers of Big Government from Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, or Harry Browne, I got the inside scoop about Big Government and government social programs from Wile E. Coyote and the bureaucrats at Acme. Thank you, Chuck Jones."
Go smoke another joint.
If our tools, the Congressmen and Senators of this nation don't collectively represent the Acme products and Wile E. Coyote, I don't know what does.
Trent Lott even has that same dum bass look on his face after having everything blow up in his face. With nothing but that skeletal framework, he grins the grin of a neutered looser. Beep Beep, %*&*$ Trent!
Who p*ssed in your cornflakes? Or are you simply a psychotic with no imagination or sense of humor?
And please put that axe down!
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