Monkeys, Bananas and Cold Water

This was sent to me by a friend. I dont know where it came from originally or I would give credit. But it is so good that there is no point in my writing a blog today when someone else has already done such a good job. Look at the bottom for a link to GOOOH, a group that is working on solving this problem.

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put the cold water away.

Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana. Why, you ask? Because in their minds... that is the way it has always been!

This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED.

The Political Action Committee GOOH or "Get Out Of Our House" is a group that plans on dethroning ALL the monkeys in 2012. Their plan includes finding the candidates from the general public (no politicians need apply), educating them on the legal hoops they have to jump through to get registered for the primary, financing the primary campaign, and continuing financing through the general campaign.

BTW, signing up on this site costs NOTHING unless you decide to run and then the cost is $100 and GOOOH covers the rest. Filling out the profile and taking the voting test costs NOTHING.

Jim Isbell
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