Are we Fish or Are we Free?

My 20 year old daughter wanted a pet fish, so she went to the store and bought a small fish tank and one lonely fish.


The lonely little fish swims in its small tank, and I look at it every day. Occasionally I give it a pinch of fish food.


Here's an analogy that describes the relationship between myself and the fish, and what my relationship is (or aught to be) with government.


Is the fish free? Does the fish have liberty? President Obama and the rest of the progressive-liberal-left would probably say “Yes“. After all, within the confines of the tank, it's obviously free. He can swim closer to me, farther away, go up, or go down. And, occasionally some entity comes along and gives him something to eat.


This type of existence is in stark opposition of ACTUAL liberty. We Americans can’t preserve our god given liberty in a nation whose government legislates us into a metaphorical fishbowl.

With detramental welfare programs, trade imbalances and nationalization of private industries, our government is doing just that!


The skyrocketing entitlement spending as well as trillions borrowed to prop up our failing economy  will, in the words of George Soros, cause the “gradual decline of the dollar” which means the dollar will lose value. 

When the dollar loses value, we get inflation, which will limiit our choices.

 Liberty to me means that I get to make my own decisions. They’d say, “You can make your own decisions, but here is a list of approved choices.”


When “they” (leftist-progressive-liberals) begin limiting your choices: happy meals for instance, they get their foot in the door knowing you’ve begun to aquess to their decision making.  Let me tell you about the danger of this.  "You give an inch, they'll take a mile."  Glenn Beck gave this quote, "What you tolerate today will be embraced tomorrow.


In contrast, the more decisions a person can make for himself, the more free he/she is. That fish is much more free in a lake than in that little fishbowl!

It’s unfortunate that lots of people want to be put in the fish tank.  Then they don’t have to struggle.  They can simply swim around in the confines of the tank and wait for the morsels to come to them.

I’m one who would rather be in the lake, where I can go get my own food, and I am free to do whatever else I desire.

When we agree to be receivers of handouts, we limit our choices.   That fish probably fought like hell to keep from being captured, and now that it is, it’ll never be free again.

It’s unfortunate that lots of people want to be put in the fish tank.  Then they don’t have to struggle.  They can simply swim around in the confines of the tank and wait for the morsels to come to them.

I’m one who would rather be in the lake, where I can go get my own food, and I am free to do whatever else I desire.

When we agree to be receivers of handouts, we limit our choices.   That fish probably fought like hell to keep from being captured, and now that it is, it’ll never be free again.

My point: Are we, as a free people going to allow the current administration, the Tides Foundation, Media Matters, the Huffington Post, and all those power hungry radicals like George Soros; are we going to allow them to pluck us out of our lake to put us in a fishbowl?