If memory serves, the song goes like this:
Break up to make up, that’s all we do
First you love me, then you hate me
It’s a ga-a-a-me for fo-o-o-o-ls.
Now we’re all supposed to kiss and make up, right, so they can focus on the pressing issue of re-election? Not so fast, sayeth I.
Push-me-pull-me politics is a game for fools, but also for pirates. It is neither trickle-down nor trickle-up economics, but swirl-around economics…colossal sums of money spinning fiercely and counterproductively like a tornado, with Politicos snug in the eye of the storm while carnage is wrought willy nilly.
I spent yesterday pondering life in America. Being fundamentally self-centered…which I contend is not only normal but healthy, and the backbone of a free market…I especially pondered MY life in America. I am obliged to admit that it isn’t playing out in a manner that I recognize, nor in a fashion that suits me. Then I am obliged to recall the age-old command that America is a ‘love it or leave it’ proposition. Can we at least talk about that?
Where can the people who don’t have digs in Dubai go? Who will welcome, rather than control and fine and marginalize and punish and tax us? We have dispensed enough financial foreign aid over the years that perhaps we can also dispense some logistical aid to those, like me, who do not fit into Changed America and who do not fancy towing the line as a critic and a wallet.
It might work to America’s advantage to have enclaves of expatriates scattered around the globe. It might incline America to browbeat and invade fewer countries, for starters. If America DOES invade, the presence of English Speakers could only facilitate American Imperialism and Coercive Commerce.
I am as on board with soaring rhetoric as the next magic carpet rider…I am a big fan of words…but the implication of yesterday’s quote-unquote mandate of 50-odd percent is that Mob Rule rules. Mob rule holds that a Majority can simply decide that it is not stealing, rather, that it is lawful to seize one earner’s money and redistribute it to another…add that to an open-ended Bailout that rewards chicanery and stupidity…and we still can’t figure out why Big Money is skittish about investing in America.
It’s not exactly a head-scratcher.