Are We Doomed?
2nd April 2011
I grew up in a farm state, South Dakota, and still recall a joke that was then popular. It grew out of the fact that the number of farmers in the U.S. was constantly declining, while at the same time the Department of Agriculture was steadily growing. So here is the joke: A guy at the Department of Agriculture is going past a cubicle and he sees one of his colleagues sitting at his desk, crying. He wonders what is wrong and stops to ask his colleague what has happened. The guy looks up and, through his tears, says: “My farmer died.”
I’m sure that happens in the State Department, too: ‘My country died.’
Let’s try this one: if the cowboy gets bigger than the horse, both the horse and the cowboy are in trouble.
We’ve been in trouble for a loooooong time….