A fable about ethics in Utah politics:
Up on Chicken Coop Hill, Chicken Little Ken was heard to exclaim, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling, I will form a commission to figure out how to fix it.”
He wondered who could help study the sky and he found a fox willing to study a sliver of the sky and guard the chicken coop for only 60,000 feed pellets from the public trough.
Chicken Little Ken then crossed the road (even he didn’t know why) and, when he came back, much to his surprise, the fox said he would study the whole sky for only 700,000 feed pellets from the very same public trough.
Chicken Little Ken and the fox were so excited that they decided to live happily ever after in Chicken Little Ken’s Ivory tower.
The moral of the story: In order to feather his nest, Chicken Little Ken needs the rest of us chickens to pluck.
Scott Fenwick, Salt Lake City
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