Blindfolds are great tranquilization aids for
horses. In my experience, 99 times out of 100,
needle shy ponies barely flinch if you first cover
there eyes with a blindfold. Let me tell you about
the one which flinched.
Greg’s Laurel Trading Post markets horses, trailers,
trucks and tack and one of his new geldings, Wild
Bay, suffered a forehead laceration. Wild Bay did
not come to Greg’s place named such; he earned the
moniker while he was there. Sometimes it is hard to
tell if veterinarians are part of the solution, or
part of the problem. With this pony, I rapidly
became part of the problem.
Wild Bay was a little head shy from nearly being
scalped, so I stepped him into our stocks and
tranquilized him. Even though his nose was hanging
on the ground, he threw his head every time I
touched his face. I tried a nose twitch; no luck.
Retreating to a blindfold, I carefully threaded a
towel under his halter, across his eyes, and then
back under the halter on the opposite side. For the
first second, I looked like a hero; the second
second, not so much. Wild Bay panicked and exploded
tipping the stocks sideways until they wedged
cockeyed between the ground and the clinic roof. He
momentarily balanced at this 45 degree angle, before
kicking hard and driving his feet through the
floorboards of the stocks inflicting a truly serious
laceration to his left rear foot. With Wild Bay’s
weight now removed from the equation, the stocks
slammed back to the ground and he collapsed in a
bleeding heap. I very delicately crept towards him,
slipped off the blindfold and he struggled to his
feet. Now we did have a problem. It took general
anesthesia to knock him down and suture the new
laceration on his foot, a second anesthesia to
change the bandage a week later, followed by a third
to remove the sutures at week three. Here is why I
told you about Wild Bay.
Just like with horses, politicians frequently
blindfold voters so as to hide the needle pricks.
Remove your blindfolds and look at this: For 2012,
President Obama has budgeted $2.477 trillion for
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, federal
pensions, and interest on our national debt. Termed
entitlements, this category alone consumes nearly
100 percent of the $2.5 trillion we collect in
taxes. The second category of federal spending
termed discretionary, is subdivided into columns of
defense ($0.868 trillion) and nondefense ($0.45
trillion). This means after entitlement spending, we
are operating entirely on borrowed money. Think
about it. All government spending you see in
everyday life is money borrowed from China with the
debt dumped on our grandchildren. This is insane,
unless you do not care much for your grandchildren.
Our economic situation is critical, but not hopeless
and here is why. In his GOP acceptance speech, Mitt
Romney said under his leadership, by 2020 America
would become energy independent through the
development of our natural resources. If he means
under his administration, the EPA will abandon
carbon and haze regulations and the federal
government quits redistributing tax dollars into
failing green energy companies, ethanol production,
wind generators, and Chevy Volts, then America is
poised for the greatest economic recovery in
history. Developing the vast natural resources God
has gifted us could double treasury revenues due to
new self-sustaining jobs. Suddenly, with $5 trillion
in income, it is possible to both save Social
Security and Medicare, plus pay down our debt.
Contrast this with the progressive plan to solve our
woes with Obamacare; a program entirely on the
expense side of the equation. It is not coincidence
the cost for universal health care does not rear its
ugly head until after the 2012 elections. Without a
blindfold, the difference between these plans is
obvious.
Here is why you are hearing this from a lowly
Montana legislator. The vast coal, oil and natural
gas reserves in our Treasure State means Montana can
lead America’s drive for energy independence.
Progressives will attempt to block our coal trains,
halt fracking, and increase regulation, so my job in
Helena is to obstruct the left. I can do that. All I
need to do is strap this towel across their eyes,
slap on a twitch and they won’t feel a thing.
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