Can you imagine Joe Biden, Jerome Powell, and the 435 members of Congress actually doing these things? Bill, that would be a big no! For shits and giggles, lets just say they surprised us and decided to do the right thing. The bureaucrats would put the kibosh on these wrong thinkers before they had a chance to make it to the podium. Mencken was so spot on with this quote: "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's goodbye to the Bill of Rights." For those who choose to see, its fairly obvious who runs the country. If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. There's absolutely no fixing this baby. The best thing we can do for future generations is burn it to the ground and start over.
I am 72 years old and can look back on an enjoyable life (with a few bumps along the way) no matter how badly the clowns in Washington screw things up. But when I go to the grocery store and see the young children, with their eyes filled with joy and wonder, and realize how badly their lives will probably be because of the FUBAR world we will hand over to them, it makes me very angry and very sad at the same time. We look at the slaveholders of the 18th and 19th century with disgust and contempt for their treatment of black people. I wonder if the people of the 22nd century will look at us with disgust and contempt for our actions the last several decades.
You know, I like to gamble a bit and am known to play a few hundred dollars here and there on shooting craps. I also am astute at wealth or resource preservation and it occurred to me the other day that these two things are at opposing ends of my dabbling. Soooo, I think I know what I am going to do. The casinos will miss me and I will miss the fun and revelry of the enterprise. But one thing I know is how to fix my issue. As Bill says, so do the leaders of our little experiment. But, to our chagrin, there will no sane solutions to come from our 535 "leaders" so to speak, so I am taking my marbles and going home. This bunch of evil, thoughtless, baboons that we depend on to fix this mess they created and championed have no intention of setting our ship back on course as any good captain would. They will run it aground and blame it on Putin, or covid, or the Easter Bunny, or whatever this clown who speaks for the baboons decides what will please the poor and unwashed. Then DC will run around like chicken little and say what brilliant solutions they have and we will suffer like when Jimmy Carter had us do when he ran the show. But, and believe me, there will be no wisdom from Washington to correct this. Man the lifeboats, she's going down.
My favorite brand of democracy is the Irish version. Throwing sand in the gears of the apparatchik's machine is guaranteed to bring on intense euphoria :-)
Can you imagine Joe Biden, Jerome Powell, and the 435 members of Congress actually doing these things? Bill, that would be a big no! For shits and giggles, lets just say they surprised us and decided to do the right thing. The bureaucrats would put the kibosh on these wrong thinkers before they had a chance to make it to the podium. Mencken was so spot on with this quote: "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's goodbye to the Bill of Rights." For those who choose to see, its fairly obvious who runs the country. If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. There's absolutely no fixing this baby. The best thing we can do for future generations is burn it to the ground and start over.
I am 72 years old and can look back on an enjoyable life (with a few bumps along the way) no matter how badly the clowns in Washington screw things up. But when I go to the grocery store and see the young children, with their eyes filled with joy and wonder, and realize how badly their lives will probably be because of the FUBAR world we will hand over to them, it makes me very angry and very sad at the same time. We look at the slaveholders of the 18th and 19th century with disgust and contempt for their treatment of black people. I wonder if the people of the 22nd century will look at us with disgust and contempt for our actions the last several decades.
You know, I like to gamble a bit and am known to play a few hundred dollars here and there on shooting craps. I also am astute at wealth or resource preservation and it occurred to me the other day that these two things are at opposing ends of my dabbling. Soooo, I think I know what I am going to do. The casinos will miss me and I will miss the fun and revelry of the enterprise. But one thing I know is how to fix my issue. As Bill says, so do the leaders of our little experiment. But, to our chagrin, there will no sane solutions to come from our 535 "leaders" so to speak, so I am taking my marbles and going home. This bunch of evil, thoughtless, baboons that we depend on to fix this mess they created and championed have no intention of setting our ship back on course as any good captain would. They will run it aground and blame it on Putin, or covid, or the Easter Bunny, or whatever this clown who speaks for the baboons decides what will please the poor and unwashed. Then DC will run around like chicken little and say what brilliant solutions they have and we will suffer like when Jimmy Carter had us do when he ran the show. But, and believe me, there will be no wisdom from Washington to correct this. Man the lifeboats, she's going down.
Just sayin'
Don Harrell
“Two years of short, sharp pain... or a decade and a half of grinding depression?” Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan CHOSE the short, sharp pain.
Byedone will probably chose long & miserable.
That new press Secretary makes Psaki look good.
That’s saying something.
Delusional... The Whitehouse is Delusional...
Don't worry:
[Proverb 3:5-12 THE GOVERNMENT version]
Trust in THE GOVERNMENT with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge THE GOVERNMENT,
And IT shall direct your paths.
Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear THE GOVERNMENT and depart from evil.
It will be health to your flesh,
And strength to your bones.
Honor THE GOVERNMENT with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits (and lastfruits and the fruits in-between) of all your increase;
So your barns will be filled with plenty,
And your vats will overflow with new wine.
My son, do not despise the chastening of THE GOVERNMENT,
Nor detest ITs correction;
For whom THE GOVERNMENT loves IT corrects,
Just as a father the son in whom he delights.
My favorite brand of democracy is the Irish version. Throwing sand in the gears of the apparatchik's machine is guaranteed to bring on intense euphoria :-)
Harumph!
Harumph!
This inflation thing looks serious. We better have a committee hearing on this so we can bury it further into the sink hole.
Harumph!
Harumph!
As a card carrying curmudgeon Luddite, I'd like to salute my fellow Posters this morning. Bravo, you get it!