2 Big 2 Work
12/April/2010 08:44 Filed in: Special Report | Week In Review
The bellyachers are giving me a headache. Well, actually they seem to be more akin to a pain at the end of the alimentary canal, but unless it is phrased in that way, it becomes politically incorrect. Let me see if I have got this straight? You have a beef with the fact that you have to pay way too much income tax when you and yours gross six figures a year and nearly half of the American households pay nothing.
It is really too bad that your mortgage is upside down by about 50% and your 401k and the rest of your investments lost about the same, and you still are not back on track to retiring early, with only your four thousand square foot McMansion in the ‘burbs, and your two thousand square foot second home in the foreign paradise. You can cry me a river, but I really don’t care. Welcome to the real world.
Bah! Bah! Bah! You went to work everyday, did the best you could, never took any real risk and suddenly you were a millionaire. Well, at least you were a millionaire. Nobody ever called you a sheep, sheep can’t leverage a mid-level professional job, with really only bureaucratic skills, into a million bucks. Truly this was an absolute miracle, helped along with cheap credit, marketing, and educational propaganda. After all you are worth it, and you have the room full of seventh place trophies to prove it.
Suddenly the 2 BIG 2 work vultures from the government want you to pay what they call your fair share. It isn’t just the Feds, it’s the state, the county, and the city too. Even the home owners association wants more money to keep the water feature pumping. Just like me, they all don’t want to hear your story of an American Dream of a pampered upbringing turned into gentrified nausea. You had it all, peaches and cream, and now it is time to pay the dues.
Perhaps you didn’t DVR Alan Greenspan on C-Span last week when he said he thought he was doing the right thing during lllooonnnggg his term at the Fed, and now in hindsight there may have been just a few tweaks of the economy that might have led to a continuing-continuum of eternal prosperity. However now that this bubble burst and after ObamaCare has passed, old Alan has some fresh insights that we might not be able to pay for everything at the same time.
Maybe you should send him one of your seventh place trophies for a reward!
Come to think of it, while I was just trying to get your goat, (well I know in your prosperity you never really have touched a real goat, it is a figure of speech), Greenspan’s remarks should really make you as mad as H — E — double toothpicks. Let us see if we can figure this out together. In his five terms as Fed Chairman, Greenspan could do no evil, and since four different presidents appointed him to five terms, one must assume that they could do no evil either, so then no one was to blame for all this financial mess.
Well, that is not quite true, throughout his campaign and through his first year plus as president, Barack Obama blamed everything as the fault of the presidency of George W. Bush and his VP Dick Cheney. Lest we forget their foul media coconspirator was Fox News and their cadre of very popular knuckle dragging traditionalists.
So no one knew enough to understand what was really going on, and since it was all George W. Bush’s fault, he must have done it on purpose. Whether that be good, evil, or just boring, that depends upon your political worldview.
This brings us to the present. Keeping with a consistent worldview, if you believe that Bush was evil, then Obama must be good. If you believe that Bush was somewhat good, then Obama must be disturbingly evil. If you believe that Bush was incompetent like all the others, then you really don’t matter, but chances are no one can get your goat, because you have become too disillusioned to really care anymore. Furthermore along the line that no president in the present era knew what was going on, then Barack Obama must fit that definition also.
Now when you really think about it seriously, all those guys that got to be president were pretty likable, or they would not have been elected. To further your prejudices, it seems the reason Bush got elected twice, was the fact that Al Gore and John Kerry were two very unlikable blokes. You’ve got my vote on that.
Since Greenspan didn’t know what he was doing, and the presidents that appointed and reappointed him didn’t know what they were doing, then that surely is the reason they provided no leadership, and therefore Congress followed the same lame incompetent pursuits also. You’ve got my witness on that too brother! Amen and Amen!
Well, I guess I have to apologize. I said you were just a bellyacher that gave me a headache. I was wrong you have all the reasons in the world not only to bellyache, but to be really mad, so mad that you want to do something about it. When you really think about it realistically you really haven’t got a choice. As they say in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I would submit that doesn’t give you much depth perception, but at least you seem to think there is something wrong and now are finally willing to do something about it. So you too can grow up to be president, but then again maybe you would like to make a real difference?
Now they say that this has turned into a run-on — no-point joke, but it really isn’t a joke at all, it is really sad, so sad that maybe instead of bellyaching, and whining, we should attempt to begin at the bottom and put it all together again, from that location — the moral of the story goes something like:
Breaking News! If it is 2 BIG 2 fail, it is 2 BIG 2 work!
It is really too bad that your mortgage is upside down by about 50% and your 401k and the rest of your investments lost about the same, and you still are not back on track to retiring early, with only your four thousand square foot McMansion in the ‘burbs, and your two thousand square foot second home in the foreign paradise. You can cry me a river, but I really don’t care. Welcome to the real world.
Bah! Bah! Bah! You went to work everyday, did the best you could, never took any real risk and suddenly you were a millionaire. Well, at least you were a millionaire. Nobody ever called you a sheep, sheep can’t leverage a mid-level professional job, with really only bureaucratic skills, into a million bucks. Truly this was an absolute miracle, helped along with cheap credit, marketing, and educational propaganda. After all you are worth it, and you have the room full of seventh place trophies to prove it.
Suddenly the 2 BIG 2 work vultures from the government want you to pay what they call your fair share. It isn’t just the Feds, it’s the state, the county, and the city too. Even the home owners association wants more money to keep the water feature pumping. Just like me, they all don’t want to hear your story of an American Dream of a pampered upbringing turned into gentrified nausea. You had it all, peaches and cream, and now it is time to pay the dues.
Perhaps you didn’t DVR Alan Greenspan on C-Span last week when he said he thought he was doing the right thing during lllooonnnggg his term at the Fed, and now in hindsight there may have been just a few tweaks of the economy that might have led to a continuing-continuum of eternal prosperity. However now that this bubble burst and after ObamaCare has passed, old Alan has some fresh insights that we might not be able to pay for everything at the same time.
Maybe you should send him one of your seventh place trophies for a reward!
Come to think of it, while I was just trying to get your goat, (well I know in your prosperity you never really have touched a real goat, it is a figure of speech), Greenspan’s remarks should really make you as mad as H — E — double toothpicks. Let us see if we can figure this out together. In his five terms as Fed Chairman, Greenspan could do no evil, and since four different presidents appointed him to five terms, one must assume that they could do no evil either, so then no one was to blame for all this financial mess.
Well, that is not quite true, throughout his campaign and through his first year plus as president, Barack Obama blamed everything as the fault of the presidency of George W. Bush and his VP Dick Cheney. Lest we forget their foul media coconspirator was Fox News and their cadre of very popular knuckle dragging traditionalists.
So no one knew enough to understand what was really going on, and since it was all George W. Bush’s fault, he must have done it on purpose. Whether that be good, evil, or just boring, that depends upon your political worldview.
This brings us to the present. Keeping with a consistent worldview, if you believe that Bush was evil, then Obama must be good. If you believe that Bush was somewhat good, then Obama must be disturbingly evil. If you believe that Bush was incompetent like all the others, then you really don’t matter, but chances are no one can get your goat, because you have become too disillusioned to really care anymore. Furthermore along the line that no president in the present era knew what was going on, then Barack Obama must fit that definition also.
Now when you really think about it seriously, all those guys that got to be president were pretty likable, or they would not have been elected. To further your prejudices, it seems the reason Bush got elected twice, was the fact that Al Gore and John Kerry were two very unlikable blokes. You’ve got my vote on that.
Since Greenspan didn’t know what he was doing, and the presidents that appointed and reappointed him didn’t know what they were doing, then that surely is the reason they provided no leadership, and therefore Congress followed the same lame incompetent pursuits also. You’ve got my witness on that too brother! Amen and Amen!
Well, I guess I have to apologize. I said you were just a bellyacher that gave me a headache. I was wrong you have all the reasons in the world not only to bellyache, but to be really mad, so mad that you want to do something about it. When you really think about it realistically you really haven’t got a choice. As they say in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I would submit that doesn’t give you much depth perception, but at least you seem to think there is something wrong and now are finally willing to do something about it. So you too can grow up to be president, but then again maybe you would like to make a real difference?
Now they say that this has turned into a run-on — no-point joke, but it really isn’t a joke at all, it is really sad, so sad that maybe instead of bellyaching, and whining, we should attempt to begin at the bottom and put it all together again, from that location — the moral of the story goes something like:
Breaking News! If it is 2 BIG 2 fail, it is 2 BIG 2 work!