Mayor Big Gulp and the Toilet Lady – American Busybodies

Due to our free association style essay writing (some call it "rambling") it will take us a bit to tie this all together so let’s get started.

A lone senator has resurrect a great American word – busybody. 

Our American English is sometimes lacking in really good, descriptive words to capture one concept – one situation – one description so apt that the single word burns an everlasting image of clarity of what one is attempting to depict.

TheFundamentals, in describing this current administration has used one word:  debt.  Massive debt.  Endless, burdensome debt.  The kind of debt that destroys individuals leaves families homeless – split asunder, impoverished; debt that takes once great cities like Detroit, Oakland, Newark, Philadelphia and Atlanta and leaves them rusting, crap holes filled with beggars and ne’er do wells.   Obama debt is eternal – give me your children, your grandchildren and everyone that follows, so that my voters can get some crap today.  No, we don’t want to pay for it – let the grandkids pay.  Is there one word to depict the horror that Obama and Bernanke have imposed on every living and unborn American child?  We use debt but that one word does not capture the essence of the damage Obama, Bernanke and their foolish congress and bureaucrats have wrought.

A new fool has popped up in New York.  Just as it appeared that Mr. Obama was about to comprehensively (aside – here is one more word that politicians and their mid level IQ bureaucrats and their stump dumb union masters use regularly when what  they really mean is an easy way out of a massive problem they have created.  Their solution, of course, will cost hard working, private sector working taxpayers dearly with even lower personal income after the “comprehensive” solution is implemented) embrace debt as his personal word for his eight years in office – just as we at TheFundamentals figured everyone was going to see what a fiscal and financial disaster history will bestow on America’s first black president; along comes one more glory seeker to push Mr. Obama aside and take the spotlight.

Why would a billionaire go out of his way to make his bones – his everlasting image – his reputation – his legacy – about downsizing big gulps?  Is there a word to describe this fool?  One word that captures the essence of a successful man who wants to be president (aside:  since when is that top job so appealing to the dimwitted; the extraordinarily vain; the least among us?) and chooses to run on the platform of limiting the size of a soda drink?   Is this the equivalent of a confession or perhaps a revelation that being a big success in business is not tied to skill, capability, leaning-in and hard work?  Or, even worse, have we at TheFundamentals missed something with all our focus on financial and personal responsibility? On debt?  All this time, was the real issue – soda pop?

This brings us to our topic for the day – busybodies. This one American word: busybody conveys a vivid image.

Senator Rand Paul is not a successful businessman – he seems like a regular guy – the type of man who has values and takes care of his responsibilities – we call this type of man a hero – but he sure didn’t fall far from the tree, did he?  Please listen to Senator Paul, using this great American word, address one of Washington, DC's busybodies –