<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Ball They Choose To Bounce</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although they have been persistent, <br>With requests to free them from limits.<br>They wish less restrictions of government, <br>In their perceived over governed lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet...<br>During national disasters they expect, <br>The government to step in quickly...<br>To save their dreams from floating down streams.<br>And a catering to their needs immediately.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They protest with voices raised, <br>That the government intends to 'socialize' their days.<br>And a capitalistic system already depleted of feeding greed, <br>Has agreed to respect and honor their pleas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet...<br>They become surprised and upset, <br>When cuts to their entitlements are proposed.<br>To balance a budget needed to impose.<br>And those who had advocated this, <br>Begin to poke out their lips.<br>When it is learned and discovered, <br>The first on the list is granting the ones insisting...<br>For those less restricted wishes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Someone, somewhere misquoted our desires.<br>You see...<br>Our wishes were for you to cut 'their' entitlements.<br>To leave the ones we deserve to remain intact.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that ball they choose to bounce, <br>To announce themselves independent...<br>They want it to be bounced back, <br>To be debated and determined...<br>As to when specifically that independence begins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443165" data-title="That Ball They Choose To Bounce de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Although they have been persistent, With requests to free them from limits. They wish less restrictions of government, In their perceived over governed lives. But yet... During national disasters they expect, The government to step in quickly...."></div> </div> </div>

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