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It Just Ain’t A-gonna Be Enough

   Written by on July 17, 2014 at 10:38 am

Last week I wrote about how the Sneezeville Independence Day parade was cancelled because the folks doing all of the work and pulling all of the load got fed up and quit.

logo stump co.Just before I sent in that story I said to my wife, “Miz Whitt,” I said, “I’m not usually into fortune telling and prognostication but I’m going to make a little prediction. Those folks down to the Messenger are going to get some complaints about this. That’s nothing new; they get some complaints about me on a regular basis. Looks like they can handle it fine.”

“So, Miz Whitt,” I says, “here’s my prediction and prognostication. Every complaint they get is going to be from one of those folks sitting on one of those wagons waiting for somebody else to give them a free ride.”

Well, put me in a bucket and call me a tadpole but that’s exactly what happened. You’d think when I wrote about bums and deadbeats riding a wagon that was intended to be for those who need it nobody would stand up and shout about it. If they did it should be those the wagon was intended to help who should be mad at the bums and deadbeats who messed it up for everybody.

Instead several Bums and Deadbeats stood up and said if the wagon is there they have as much right to ride it as anyone else. One of the folks who really needs the wagon was also mad but instead of being mad at the Bums they were mad at the folks who had been pulling the wagon and quit.

I guess it goes back to that old saying, “Do it for them once and they appreciate it, do it twice and they expect it but do it three times and you owe it to them.”

You just can’t force folks to pull the load. Folks are like mules. If you hitch a horse to a load they can’t pull, you can whip them into pulling until they die. Mules are different. They can out-pull a horse but no whipping in the world is gonna make one pull more than they should.

Yo Mama thinks he can force the rich to pull what he calls “their fair share.” He just doesn’t realize no matter how much he takes it “just ain’t a-gonna be enough.” Once he decides their “fair share” is 100 percent and he takes it all there is still going to be one person pulling the wagon with 6 free-loaders riding and there will be a new definition of “rich folks” with less money to pay “their fair share” and it won’t quit until it gets all the way down to you.

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