{"id":16062,"date":"2020-04-20T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=16062"},"modified":"2020-04-19T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T15:28:29","slug":"conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=16062","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Conundrum<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>&#8230;.<\/u><\/strong><br \/>&#8220;A gun is like a parachute.&nbsp; If you need one, and don&#8217;t have one, you&#8217;ll probably never need one again.&#8221;The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>Here are six Conundrums of Socialism in the United States of America :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>1.&nbsp; America is capitalist and greedy &#8211; yet half of the population is subsidized.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>2. Half of the population is subsidized &#8211; yet they think they are victims.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>3. They think they are victims &#8211; yet their representatives run the government.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>4. Their representatives run the government &#8211; yet the poor keep getting poorer.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>5. The poor keep getting poorer &#8211; yet they have things that people in other Countries only dream about.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about, yet they want America to be more like those other countries.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>Think about it!&nbsp;&nbsp;And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By the way&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Funny how that works.&nbsp; And here&#8217;s another one worth considering&#8230;&nbsp;2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money, but we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?&nbsp; What&#8217;s interesting is the first group &#8220;worked for&#8221; their money, but the second didn&#8217;t.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Think about it&#8230;..&nbsp;Am I the only one missing something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conundrum&#8230;.&#8220;A gun is like a parachute.&nbsp; If you need one, and don&#8217;t have one, you&#8217;ll probably never need one again.&#8221;The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Here are six Conundrums of Socialism in the United States of America :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; America is capitalist and greedy &#8211; yet half of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=16062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conundrum&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16063,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/16063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}