Why is it that people who reach their goals by lying don’t expect to be lied to?
The current crop of liars in the White House were elected primarily because they told the multitudinous victims of Bush Derangement Syndrome what they wanted to hear. This, of course, had little to do with what they intended to do if these fools were actually dumb enough to elect them. That is to say, they lied to them. (They lied to us, too, but we weren’t dumb enough to believe them. Fat lot of good that does us.)
Among the lies ingested by Bush Derangement Sufferers were:
- The war against Islam and its latest attempt to subjugate the earth through terrorism and violence would be stopped (we’d surrender, and the world would return to a state of peace);
- The terrorist prison at Guantanamo would be closed, and the terrorists who had been imprisoned there would be returned to their peaceful homes and communities as the innocents they were when we snatched them away;
- The defense budget would be slashed, because with the world once again loving America, why would we need more than a token military to fly Pelosi and Obama to their next international cocktail party?
- People in government would be held to the same standards as mere citizens. Well, except for paying taxes;
- Government handouts of taxpayer dollars that subsidized big corporations would stop, campaign contributions would come only from the little guy, and the government’s money would be spent on the needy;
- The United States would assume a more humble pose among the nations of the world, cease advocating for democracy and let peace return to the world (primarily under the jack-booted heel of thuggish leftist dictators);
- Oh yes, we wouldn’t really care about any of the above because we would enter into a new era of “green” prosperity.
So far as I can see, taxpayer money isn’t going to assist people with paying mortgages for the houses they bought but couldn’t afford. No. It’s being shoveled into banks and insurance companies that invested in these worthless mortgages, knowing full well that they were a Barney Frank fraud upon the public, and hoping that no one would notice.
Well, at least the executives, directors and traders at the firms that caused the problems are still getting their bonuses. And that’s only fair, because the Barney Franks of the Congress certainly got their re-election contributions from these fraudulent failures.
No doubt prosperity will return to the rest of us, however, as government takes more and more money away in taxes and spends it on feel-good leftist projects like distributing condoms in Africa and funding more abortions in America. Yes, fewer children left to pay the bills for all this nonsense; that’s the way to prosperity.
Stimulus, however, demands that we not stop at raising ordinary taxes. No; we need to invent new ones. Even at this moment, Nancy Pelosi, the Green Goddess of Mob Hill in Congress, is working on ways to impose a carbon tax on American industry, no doubt in an effort to make it more “competitive.”
Unfortunately for all of us, and as Leona Helmsley once noted, only the little people pay taxes. That would be you and me. For businesses, taxes are added onto the cost of manufacturing a product or providing a service. So who pays the tax? We do, when we buy the product or service. It’s included in the price. (Governments like such taxes because they’re hidden.)
Paradoxically, a carbon tax will result in more imports from China and other big polluters, because with zero pollution control such countries have the world’s cheapest costs. Unfortunately for us, these products are all we’ll be able to afford.
That leaves us with printing more money as the road to prosperity. The Federal Reserve did so to the tune of $1.2 trillion in March. But when you print more money, whether you’re the Federal Reserve printing real greenbacks or North Korea counterfeiting 100-dollar bills to fund your nuke program, you dilute the existing stock of money. The end result is inescapable: Each dollar bill becomes worth less. Keep printing, and they become worthless. This will take care of the “problem” of the greenback being the world’s reserve currency. So much for the printing press paving the yellow brick road to prosperity.
The rest of the world isn’t as stupid as the Bush Derangement Sufferers who elected an illegal immigrant as president. The reality check is already in the mail. And the suffering when that reality check clears the bank won’t be confined to Obama’s supporters.
