I stumbled across this while web surfing today. It is a take off from something that I was told as a child and the message is still important today, if not more so. All to often, men simply act in what they perceive to be in their best interest for the moment. Never bothering to look past what is directly in front of their noses.
Now, one might believe that this is simply a function of youth and inexperience. If that were so then people like John McCain and Fred Thompson wouldn’t say or do some of the stupid things that they do. Rather, they are the ones that are subtly building the fence.
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