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A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots!

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but 
not
for entering and remaining in the country illegally —
you might 
live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or 
to
take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion —
you might 
live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a 
check, buy liquor, or check out a
library book and rent a video, but not 
to vote for who runs the government —
you might live in a nation that 
was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from 
owning gun magazines that
hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty 
F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new
leaders in Egypt —
you might live in a 
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but 
not
one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make 
you
fat —
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is
 run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a 
wheelchair
can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman 
in a
burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head 
searched—
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but 
is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions 
of
dollars of debt is to spend trillions more —
you might live in a 
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his 
teacher
is “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class 
in grade school is
perfectly acceptable —
you might live in a nation 
that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more 
government regulation and intrusion,
while not working is rewarded with 
Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid
benefits, subsidized housing, and free
 cell phones —
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses 
but is run by idiots.

If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to 
provide incentives for
not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment 
checks, without any
requirement to prove that gainful employment was 
diligently sought, but couldn’t be found —
you might live in a nation 
that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest 
big-screen TV, while your
neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a 
wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV
and new cars, and the government 
forgives his debt when he defaults on
his mortgage —
you might live in a
 nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself 
makes
you more “safe” according to the government —
you mightlive in a 
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the media panders to your openly socialist leader while the IRS targets groups with
dissenting views—
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government ‘cracks down’ on legal gun sales to law abiding citizens while
secretly supplying illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels—
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your local government (Chicago) outlawed gun ownership for ‘the safety of its
citizens’ and now boasts the worst murder rate in the country —
you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.