QUOTE OF THE DAY

In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the aging horse Boxer who had done most of the hard work on the farm was sick and could not work anymore.

“He looked forward to the peaceful days that he would spend in the corner of the big pasture. It would be the first time that he had leisure to study and improve his mind. He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.”

Then a van came to take Boxer away to the ”veterinary” for his ailments, according to the ruling pigs who had moved into the Farmer Jones’ farmhouse.

“The animals crowded round the van.”Good-bye, Boxer!” they chorused, “Good-bye!

But the donkey, Benjamin, shouted, ”Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of the van? ‘Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willington. Dealer in Hides and Bone-Meal, Kennels Supplied.’ Do you not understand what this means? They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s!” 

Boxer’s friend, the mare, Clover, cried in a terrible voice, “Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly! They’re taking you to your death!”

“All the animals took up the cry of ‘Get out Boxer. Get out!’ But the van was already gathering speed and drawing away from them. It was uncertain whether Boxer had understood what Clover had said but a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was a sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van. He was trying to kick he way out. The time had been when a few kicks from Boxer’s hoofs would have smashed the van to matchwood.

“But alas! His strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away.”

The pigs then explained to the animals that the glue factory writing on the van only meant that the veterinary had bought the van and had not yet changed the wording.

The animals were relieved and believed. Later, the pigs explained that Boxer had died at the veterinary and for some reason Boxer’s body could not be returned.

Such is the pathetic belief of Americans in a system not only draining away their freedom but their lives and estates, a system constantly funneling the work of their labor and savings to the pigs in the farmhouse, the owners and operators of the Federal Reserve System.

Comment from JR on Zero Hedge