Bride of Rove

As I said yesterday:

The Senate is voting to debate the Health care bill. The only thing they are debating is how large the bribes will be for the holdouts who have the juice to jerk Reid and Company around and there’s no limit to how much this government will pay to get what they want. they are printing money like mad. They don’t care if they burn this country to the ground to get this done. I will call my senators. I’ve emailed. But the bottom line is – the fix is in. They have a blank check signed by us. They will vote to debate.

Normal people are incapable of conceiving the staggering sums of money our elected leaders manipulate as they craft legislation. They throw out meaningless numbers and the CBO counters with even more meaningless numbers. Various organizations calculate what they believe are real numbers which no one believes because … who really knows man? And what the hell difference does it make? None at this point … not really. We are — I believe — at a point in human behavioral evolution where it just doesn’t matter. It’s monopoly money. It’s Obama money .. from his stash.

Most of you who read this blog know the parameters of this story. You know about Cloward and Piven and the names of the alcolytes who have been moving pieces into place to overwhelm the system. It’s been overwhelmed by “want”, “need” and most intriguingly enough it has been overwhelmed by “stupid”. I won’t linger on that piece here, but of all the tsunamis rolling over us right now I find that one most fascinating. Here we are in the Age of Information with the knowledge of the Universe literally at our fingertips and it appears that the vast majority of it lays dormant, unused … unwanted, and in a gathering storm of primitive forces that boggle my mind, it is actually despised and ridiculed. You know your history, ancient (Rome) and recent (Weimar Republic) and very recent (The USSR). You see it in context. You understand microeconomics and probably macroeconomics … at least you understand how things work in a balanced system based on real products, supply, demand, value, etc. Joe Shmo, though? He’s got no idea.

Until recently – and by recent I mean twenty five years ago or so – and no I am not old – when we took that last step off the Gold Standard and watched Wall Street rise, when we sent our manufacturing jobs overseas and put our faith in the entrepreneurial genious of our exceptionally talented and driven melting pot of citizens to build the next new thing that the world would want, we had some sense of our worth, our value and our place in the world as an example of what life could be if nations worked together for their own selfish self interest. We were a magnificent experiment and we knew it … we knew it. We knew what we meant to the human race because we represented all of it at once. One wild hair up the ass of our founders unleashed the amazing potential of the individual and we took that opportunity and ran with it like a chain reaction.

My family began with the Indians who greeted Europe. My relatives married Jews escaping the Holocaust. I am a mix of so many who were here and came here to add their strengths and talents to live life free, raise families if we chose to and always, always look to leave this place a better world than it was when we got here. We are compelled, because we have enjoyed the benefits ourselves and because we understand the gift we were given by OUR ancestors, to pass it forward. Well. Some of us are compelled. Others? Not so much.

This brings me to yesterday.

Yesterday’s vote to move the healthcare bill to the floor for debate was the most naked display of complete corruption and disregard for the citizens of this nation that I have ever seen in my entire life. It was such a colossal leap from past wheeling and dealings that I felt it had to be as obvious as a super nova to Joe Shmo, keeping his head down waiting for that hand out. We’ve long since stopped pretending that it was a hand up they were waiting for and so have they … the ones who wait. But I was thinking wrong. I was thinking Joe Shmo gave a rat’s ass about anything at all. But Joe doesn’t have a sense of self much anymore and he certainly can’t see himself in context with what is happening and how it affects him one way or the other. Joe is pacified by television and and overwhelming array of entertaining devices that keep him firmly focused on his own little bubble and he doesn’t want to hear that the world is experiencing a seismic shift to the left, that our government is imploding the currency and taking over the private industries. One President is the same as the next to Joe. One congressman is the same as any other. The lights are still on. He may still have a job to go to every day. He doesn’t really balance his own finances so he has no expectations that our government should balance theirs. Besides. What the government spends … that’s not real money. If we need more, we print it. If they need to get a vote from a recalcitrant Senator to get Joe “Free” healthcare, they print it. It’s not real. None of this is real. What has been will always be and in spite of a millenia of history to the contrary, we are the first nation into infinity that cannot fail, cannot falter and in Joe’s mind we don’t have to lift a finger, move a muscle or challenge a brain cell to make that miracle last forever.

Consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of GDP, posted a solid 3.4 percent gain (annual rate) in the third quarter.

~ Alan B. Krueger
Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy & Chief Economist
Statement for the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee
of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
November 2, 2009
TG-342

So here’s to Joe. Keep shopping Joe because you are the only thing holding us together right now. Consumer spending is 70 % of GDP? That’s just mind numbing. Congress is spending like there’s no tomorrow. The nation is spending like there is no tomorrow. It’s madness.

Here’s hoping that we can lose ourselves in movies, novels, video games, sports, booze, heroin, shopping, travel and a myriad of other distractions as this unbelievable disaster unfolds and that we will come out of the other side barely registering that the grand experiment even ended. Here’s hoping that those of us who see what’s happening for what it is don’t go completely nuts and try to force the Joes of the country to face reality because there is no telling what would happen then.

On Monday Mark Levin will be telling his listeners not to give up. He will say that wars are fought one battle at a time and that this is not the end. But. Just as you can’t win against a press corps that buys ink by the barrel, you cannot win against a government that has a signed blank check and the keys to the press that prints money day and night to fund that check. We are in a fight for history and if we wish to win it is time to face reality. The entire US government is lost. Stop pinning your hopes on anyone currently there because they are drunk with power and unreachable. In 2010, vote every single one of them the hell out of office. No pardons. No reprieve. Scorched earth is our only chance of reigning in this beast. Hopefully? Joe Shmo will be too busy to vote. The remnants of our system still stand in spite of Acorn and her ilk. If there are enough people left who can reason and understand what is happening and VOTE we can still prevail.

It’s time to take way the keys to the printing press.

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