(Before I get into today’s harassment, I’d like to inform you readers of a certain situation. A year and a half ago, this business was so good, that it was taking far more energy and time than I wanted to put into it, so I decided to retire for the third time. It wasn’t fun any more. “No, that’s stupid,” I said to myself, “I’ve got two kids who all have good jobs, but who work for someone else. I’ll see if I can lure them into working for themselves.” I did. David first, and then Melissa. We all work out of our individual homes, for ourselves, and not a boss. The trouble is, that the pressure is back on me, because of that idiot in the White House. When Obama got elected, everyone wanted guns, bullets, gold and silver. David and Melissa are doing fine, but not nearly as well as me, and I wish you guys would call on them, rather than me. I know, you want to deal with the old man who writes the columns, but believe me, we all have the same prices, terms, and supplier. Even our business cards all look alike, as well as receipts, except with different names and addresses. Give me a break and call Melissa and David more, will you?
I won’t bore you with the goofy plot of the 1989 black comedy, except to say that two insurance guys, rather than get killed themselves, get Bernie their boss, killed. But, in order to stay alive themselves, Bernie has to be alive for a single weekend. Except he’s dead, so they concoct all sorts of shams to make everyone believe he is alive. They play Monopoly with dead Bernie, prop him up in the most ridiculous poses, and the film is a total comedy of errors, miss-understandings, and hilarity. Sort of reminds me of Washington D.C. except it isn’t funny.
Every possible absurd, ridiculous, inane, expensive, idiotic, frivolous, bizarre, outrageous action, bailout, rule making, law passing, bureaucratic catastrophe, is now occurring in our Nations Capital. Quackery and total ineptness, brands the goof balls who reign in D.C. All the laws of economics, common sense, and constituency opinion, are being violated with total impunity. The D.C. Gang, is following every single bad example in modern day history, in a sort of firm determination to wreck America. They are succeeding 100%. Every time Obama opens his mouth, the Dow seems to drop another fifty points.
The object seems to be to prop up every single failed business, investment, and home purchase, by destroying successful businesses, workers, banks, families, pensions, and charities. There is no shame in D.C. Only stupidity. There is no intelligence in D.C. The entire government and Congress seems to be composed of moronic imbeciles, who are incapable of the simplest of logic and understanding of the most basic of economic principals. According to Obama and his predecessor, the infamous George Bush, the solution to an economic mess, is more government, more spending, more paper money creation, more subsidies, regulations, and taxes. More government, is supposed to fix what government ruined in the first place! Those who don’t work are being cared for by those who do work, and those who produce wealth, are being crushed even more than before, by those who suck the very lifeblood out of us. Since the rich have already been destroyed for all practical purposes, the D.C. Gang will now focus on the middle class, or what’s left of it. Everything is bassackwards.
The rich destroyed? You bet. The former super rich, who built factories which provided jobs, and lived high on the hog in mansions, are practically extinct. All the fine estates with huge acreages, formal gardens, hundreds of servants, private railroad cars, and yachts, no longer exist. With the wealthy having been obliterated with the big guns of taxation, the fools who killed the class, take great pride in their accomplishments. All the factory builders and job creators are gone, and their replacements, the heads of corporations are so dumb, that they take great pride in sending jobs overseas rather than creating wealth and jobs at home. The current crop of corporate heads, are as stupid as is the D.C. Gang, I am sure. If they weren’t, would GM, Ford, and Chrysler be where they are now? Would Citibank stock go from $65 to a buck, if Citi’s CEO was a brain, or had even a modicum of the simplest form of intelligence? Would the head of the SEC have allowed Bernie Madoff to continue all these years after being continually warned about his Ponzi scheme, if there were any intelligence in her cranium?
Instead of the smart rich and super rich, we now have hundreds of millions of middle income and working class members of society, who are of the highest morality and possess the grandest of work ethics, but couldn’t hold a shadow to the really smart ones who made America. Our colleges are full of semi-literate, super liberal professors, who teach lies, and postulate that super sized government and all its accoutrements are the grand, marvelous, wave of the future. We have so-called ’educated’ people, who are the result of these colleges, running the show in D.C. and taking the entire nation down with their silliness and lack of smarts.
If a business fails, let it go. If a bank fails, let it go. If a loan defaults, foreclose and let the lender take his knocks for loaning money to someone who shouldn’t have had the loan. If something is bad, get rid of it. Even the Bible says it. “If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.” Enron was one of the largest electric companies on earth, and when it went, there wasn’t a single ripple in the economy. Those who suffered, were the stockholders, not the nation. If a bank is insolvent because of bad management, let it go. What on earth is the point of ’rescuing’ bad operations, bad management, huge business mistakes, and idiocy? The world’s economy won’t tank because AIG or Citi goes down the tubes. The world’s economy is going to suffer far more, because the hyper-inflation created by the bail-outs, handouts, subsidies, and comb-overs of the economically bankrupt, political intelligentsia.
Small is fine, but huge, is usually always supremely bad: as in government, huge corporations and banks. Your corner hardware store owner, or banker isn’t bankrupt or asking for handouts. The more huge government “fixes” things, with the avid support of both Republicans and Democrats, the worse it will all get. They’re going to “fix health care?” They’ve already “fixed” it with socialism, Medicare, and Medicaid, and any further “fixing” will totally destroy it. Everything government and the Congress touches, gets worse, not better. We are in a power dive to hell, thanks to Bush, Obama, and all the creeps who inhabit the halls of Congress. The average bureaucrat or Congressman, couldn’t run a hot dog stand at a profit, but the American fools look to them to “fix” things. My God people, isn’t it time for a revolution of some sort? 95% of Americans are against the stimulus garbage, but the D.C. Gang pays no attention whatsoever. The big guys and corporate heads love it, as it will fatten their already overweight posteriors. The National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce, all headquartered in D.C. naturally, are in favor of it, but could any of the executives of these outfits manage a McDonalds? Probably not.
Why do the media and print, ascribe such importance and intelligence to these scarecrows? D.C. is as solvent as a Confederate shinplaster. D.C., is neo-Babylonish collection of bribes, back scratching, and not much more, other than attempted power grabs and self-adulation. Actually, the entire government is a scandal of gigantic proportions. The whole mess is so corrupt and brainless, that I suspect the media have to keep it from the peasantry, lest we en mass drive to D.C. and physically overthrow the rotten apples.
Enough of these pleasantries. I’m just so damned angry at what’s going on in D.C. and with the Republicans too. Sorry for the outburst. Thursday, I’ll tell you how it all came about, and it isn’t our fault…naturally.