Psychology 101

[POORBOY]

Psychology 101
If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result .... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will
try to prevent it.

Now, put the cold water away.

Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds....that is the way it has always been!

This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time,

all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
In God We Trust

[dwalton]

Well said. It goes for most of what we see in life. We or they do it but do we know why.

[Hipshooter]

Most congressmen seem to be smart reasonable people
untill they get to Washington
Then they get in packs, like 2 wolf packs fighting each other
One pack wins for a while, then the other pack takes over for a while.
The biggest pack gets the biggest bite on the prey,
while the other pack has to chew on bones for a while.
Congress is survial of the fittest.
Don,t look for any change
This has been going on since 1776
The forest just keeps producing new pray for them to eat.
Some times the Alpha male & female change colors
And some times they have big ears

[dubl_t]

You guys are crazy, I trust my congressman whole-heartedly......just not with my money or freedoms!