And the thought struck me: why does Barack Obama want to destroy all this? Why does he want all the smiles and laughs gone, as they have been in Cuba for 50 years? Why does he want all the boutique coffee shops, tattoo parlors, micro-breweries, corner restaurants, art galleries, nick-nack shops and everything else that is not needed to sustain life, but which makes it interesting, to disappear?
We need to be clear that our present level of spending is absolutely unsustainable, and everyone who has even a shred of sense knows it.
It is a miracle that the national credit rating has not already been downgraded again. It seems likely a lot of arm twisting and maybe some cash or other quid pro quos have gone into keeping the illusion of solvency alive, but the day will come when our debt will be downgraded. If the Fed were not buying 3/4ths of it, it would have happened already. When that happens, all hell is going to break loose. Unless something like my plan is implemented, we will face another national Depression. That is my read on the situation, and I have a LOT of company.
And it seems obvious that this is the plan. They crash the economy, and get control. Then what? They eliminate income inequality among those who are in the elite. They provide a blanket and aspirin for every citizen, like Cuba, and call it universal healthcare.
Here is the thing: I had a pleasant day today, and if it is the case that someone made a billion dollars, I DON’T CARE. It doesn’t matter to me. I worry about my life, and wish everyone else did the same. Taking care of yourself is the opposite of selfishness. It is generous. You don’t have to worry about me.
When this economic catastrophe hits–and it is a certainty if we elect anyone but an actual conservative to the White House next year–everything will be washed away that makes the people who put Obama in office happy. Austin will not be weird, and neither will Portland. We will see boarded up doors of places that once sponsored good times. We will read weekly for years on end about new closings.
Does anyone even REMEMBER that we spent nearly a trillion dollars on Keynesian economics, and got nothing to show for it? The only reason our economy is not sputtering to a standstill now is the Fed is pumping $50 billion a month into the largest banks, who are using it to buy things they get to keep, but which also puts money into circulation.
I feel rage sometimes at the lack of thoughtfulness I see displayed all around me every day. Yes, thinking is work, it is hard work, but people who do not want guns pointed at their heads need to do this fucking work in much larger numbers before it is too late.
Edit: Barack Obama does not relax. He plays a lot of golf, and spends a lot of time not doing his job–which is good–but he does not relax. No true ideologue relaxes. The reason they live in their heads, the reason they are separated from the real world, from experience, is precisely that some emotional problem or problems push them away from that connection. They do not see people: they see symbols. They do not recognize suffering: merely symbols. Fidel Castro does not relax. Pol Pot did not relax. Stalin did not relax. Relatively, maybe. They went to the ocean or the mountains. But deeply: no.
Put another way, such people are unable to truly have fun. They cannot play. Their lives are characterized by one long emotional spasm.
So they do not VALUE the creature comforts and pleasures that an effective economic order makes possible. Back in the days of open radicalism, they called them “bourgeois”. But what is supposed to replace them? What pleasures and comforts do they enjoy in Cuba? Wealthy elites the world over go there for the hookers. Fidel Castro even bragged that even his hookers have college degrees. Let that sink in for a moment. Is it not a perfect metaphor? You are being fucked so you can survive, and your leaders are extolling the fact that you underwent State sponsored indoctrination.
Do you remember how the Soviets created special stores for Party elites, so they could buy stuff less good than what we take for granted now? How Communism always, necessarily, betrays the ideals of egalitarianism, fairness, justice in any sense, and common decency?
No person who can stomach Communism can possibly have a conscience and a brain. No person working to destroy our economy belongs anywhere but hell. Given the opportunity, I would gladly help facilitate the journey.