It happens every time, and it happens on every issue. The People dissolve into bickering over the fine print of a stupid premise, without questioning the premise. The days of a gazillion peons careening around in their own private coaches are OVER.
Beyond our beloved Exceptions To The Rule — Commercial, Emergency Response, Special Needs, in pretty much that order — WE SHOULD NOT BE ROLLING EVEN ONE OLD SCHOOL INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE VEHICLE OFF THOSE LINES.
We have lots and lots that are JAM PACKED with lots and lots of perfectly serviceable cars, while we dig ourselves out of the fucking deepest hole this country has been in since Adolf Hitler had Winston Churchill backed up against the Atlantic Ocean and America’s Depression was EVEN GREATER, thanks to the vote-garnering meddling over FDR. Whose Spend-A-Thon example a FRIGHTENING number of people are encouraging this DIM-WITTED President Elect to emulate.
NOT ONE more of those cars do we need. Not one. Being American does NOT mean never having to drive second-hand cars. I know, I know that the Moneyed Classes crave new. The Moneyed Classes are a lot of the problem, nationally and internationally. It’s country first, or it isn’t. We’re in this together, or we’re not. I’m sick of this shit. Play-both-sides-of-the-coin-as-it-suits-your-purpose, thy other name is the Government-Commercial Complex.
FAR cheaper now and FAR better in the long run to pay unemployment benefits, and then some. EXTENDED unemployment benefits would be cheaper than bailing out ANTIQUATED AND FAILING BUSINESSES. Extended unemployment benefits, while people rearrange i.e. relocate themselves to where business IS happening…are you kidding me? THEN we’ll see some spending.
We’ll see house swapping, domestic mergers, use conversions, all kindsa creative stuff. Necessity = Mother of Invention = American Ingenuity.
Instead of throwing MORE of Other People’s Money at Detroit, AGAIN — as the Entrenched Interests who stand most to benefit would do and who, not coincidentally, have Authority to so decree — pump funds into excellent, affordable Mass Transportation. Stationery people? People who can’t afford to get up ‘n go? People who are trapped by the American Dream? That there’s whatcha call a Toxic Asset.
A country that cannot readily move it’s principal (in my view, also principle) resource –considering that Scarcity of Resources is a principle (in my view, also principal) tenet of Economics – must necessarily sustain that inflexibility by either contrivance or incompetence, or both. Obviously, for it defies the best interests of the People while defying neither science nor economics.
Read that, Powers That Be — some of whom I will argue belong in prison — are sustainedly working against the best interests of the People they purport to represent, or they are complete nincompoops. Both, in the sense that we HAVE both. A child can see it.
Like attorneys – the unscrupulous bloodsucking kind and the kindly ineffectual kind – politicos create and sustain a need for themselves. At top-notch prices, it bears continuous recollection. Think back only as far as GEORGE BUSH, DICK CHENEY AND BIG OIL to recognize the potential hazards of BARACK OBAMA, MICHELLE OBAMA, JOE BIDEN, HILLARY CLINTON AND BIG LAW.
America is being fleeced – ongoing, as I type and still as you read – but now, even though more rather than fewer people are wrapping their minds around and admitting our betrayal, the People are positively immobilized by bullshit. THAT’S whatcha call Analysis Paralysis.
Cher to Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck: SNAP OUT OF IT.