Fear and Loathing in Obamaland

Cheney says it's just a matter of time (I thought he left town.) GWB says Sadddam will develop and use nuclear weapons against the free world (that was almost eight years ago.) Now its Obama saying the only action between now and catastrophe is the well thought out stimulus package put together oh so carefully by that team of great thinkers - Pelosi, Frank, Schumer and Durbin. Praise the Lord, the cavalry is on the way.

Could this be one of those Hollywood screenplays where the Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges implement a crazy plan for the amusement of all? Help me. I don't remember their plans carrying trillion dollar price tags. Everyone watched and laughed and knew it was dopey.

Yesterday I shared with a friend the concept that we seem to be living out all the lessons of the fairy tales that we as youngsters in the 40's and 50's learned. The Boy who Cried Wolf. The Emperor's New Clothes. Chicken Little. These stories were lessons about the idiocy of the ruling class and other characteristics of human nature.

Here's a simple proposition. Where is John Wayne? If our rulers - Pelosi, Obama and the other Keystone Cops can't take a little heat, can't tell the folk to stay home, save some money, fix the old car, cut out some unneeded purchases, turn off the tv, read the kids a book, talk a walk, visit family and friends and we'll get through this adjustment period just fine; then, perhaps they should accept the nice set of perquisites that they have arranged for themselves - pensions and health care and security details, etc. and head home. It's okay, we'll make it just fine without you. The world will survive. The stock market has already taken a pretty good beating. It'll come back.

Here's a little secret Barney and Chuckie. We're gonna do it anyway. We know it's time to cut back. We know it's time to save some money and pay down some debt. We're on to your little secret. Inflation and growing deficits and money spent on crap are your plan to keep government revenues flowing and keep your silly concept of consumer (read voter) satisfaction alive and well.

So shut down your bureaucracies. They don't work anyway. Save some money like the rest of us. Layoff the hundreds of thousands of government employees or, because you are too terrified to do it the way private business must do it; just furlough them for 30 days and let's see what happens. Give them some of those unemployment payments. Give it a try. You can always say, "I told you so."

Re: John Wayne. Guess what folk? We are the John Wayne's. We're wearing the white hats. Nothing has changed.