1. Decide you want to build a drag strip next to your NASCAR track
2. Have your request denied by the local government
3. Threaten to move your strip across the state line to South Carolina
4. Have the local government reverse course and let you build the drag strip after all, and get an “incentive package” from the state, county, and city governments to boot, just to make sure you don’t take your ball and go home
Officials Scramble to Keep N.C.’s Remaining NASCAR Races
At least my tax dollars aren’t paying for this nonsense any more.
Not that Tennessee is much better …
Taken from an account by Gustave Gilbert of a conversation he had with Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials:
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
“There is one difference,” [Gilbert] pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Reference: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp
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