{"id":9267,"date":"2013-03-04T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=9267"},"modified":"2013-03-02T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T20:19:24","slug":"you-might-be-in-a-country-founded-by-geniuses-and-ruled-by-idiots-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/you-might-be-in-a-country-founded-by-geniuses-and-ruled-by-idiots-if\/","title":{"rendered":"you might be in a country founded by geniuses and ruled by idiots if…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"idiots\"<\/a>Normally don’t read chain e-mails, but I found this one had some merit.<\/p>\n

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing, and free cell phones (with your money) \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If the government\u2019s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of Unemployment checks (with your money) and no requirement to prove they applied but can\u2019t find work \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor buys iPhones, TV\u2019s and new cars, and the government forgives his (with your money) debt when he defaults on his mortgage \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n

If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more \u201csafe\u201d according to the government \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally don’t read chain e-mails, but I found this one had some merit. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally \u2026 you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If you have to show identification to board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-2pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}