What a Pig Can Teach us About Federal Debt

            A parable tells of a pig who ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree. A crow told him, “You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die.”

            “Let it die,” said the pig. “Who cares as long as there are acorns?”

            I have known a lot of people who have had the same view toward life as that pig. I wonder how many of us think like that pig when it comes to federal spending and the federal debt.

Reaping What We Sow

Here is a parable, possibly true, that I enjoyed. My source was Erik Peterson.

Several years after inventing radar, Sir Robert Watson Watt was arrested in Canada for speeding. He'd been caught in a radar trap.

Later, he wrote this poem:

PITY SIR ROBERT WATSON WATT
STRANGE TARGET OF HIS RADAR PLOT,
AND THIS, WITH OTHERS I COULD MENTION,
A VICTIM OF HIS OWN INVENTION.

Paul said something similar:

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows (Gal. 6:7).