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Obama and the Great Depression
By Mickey Z.
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Nov 20, 2008
No, I don’t mean that Great Depression. I’m talking about the inevitable moment -- maybe next week, maybe next year -- when the Kool Aid wears off and the Obamatrons wake up to realize their hero offers nothing even approximating hope or change.
The carefully calculated speeches -- which have always been filled with empty, hollow phrases -- will no longer soothe a battered and desperate populace and the Obamabots will suddenly recognize that the Pope of Hope has never been anything more than a human marketing strategy, a product. This year’s iPhone.
“Yes we can”? Merely the first three words of a longer phrase: “Yes we can continue to work, consume, and obey authority without question.”
A great depression, so to speak, will set in. According to Depression.com, some people say this condition feels “like a black curtain of despair . . . Many people feel like they have no energy and can’t concentrate. Others feel irritable all the time.” Other common symptoms include “empty” feelings and a sense of hopelessness.
Hopelessness: how frighteningly appropriate for the inescapable post-Obama comedown. Change we can bereave in.
Yes, a great and unpreventable depression will set in . . . but, you betcha, the damage is already done.
As for that other Great Depression looming on the horizon, well, here’s my short-term economic recovery plan:
Cut the military budget by 75 percent
Eliminate corporate welfare
Return the corporate tax rate back to where it was in the 1950s
Hey, what can I say? I’m a maverick . . .
Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at www.mickeyz.net.
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Let's cut congress by 50%
Let's cut federal bureaucracy by 50%
Let's summarily cut the federal budget by 75%, all departments, all levels. Cut congressional pay by 75%.
Then lets do the same in the states and cities and towns and villages.
Let's not issue building permits for 10-20 years.
Parents to teach in the schools, or school their own kids at home.
Let's hire people to seal and protect the borders.
Let's get illegals out.
No welfare. No workfare. No government freebies.
Elder parents, neighbors, friends? Take care of them, or see to it that they are taken care of by someone. Pay that someone yourself if you have to. Same with kids.
Get out there and get whatever jobs are available. If no jobs, bake cookies, wash cars, wash floors, clean toilets. It's all work, folks.
We're in a hole because of government and government promises - to everyone, not just 'those, and 'those', and 'those'. EVERYONE.
Now the good times are over and it's time to pay the piper for the tune we've all danced to (rising tide raises ALLL boats) when everyone benefitted from the bubble.
Stiffen your spines, now come the bad years that inevitably follow the good years. Suck it up. Learn from it.
It's life. Get used to it.
Let's cut congress by 50%
Let's cut federal bureaucracy by 50%
Let's summarily cut the federal budget by 75%, all departments, all levels. Cut congressional pay by 75%.
Then lets do the same in the states and cities and towns and villages.
Let's not issue building permits for 10-20 years.
Parents to teach in the schools, or school their own kids at home.
Let's hire people to seal and protect the borders.
Let's get illegals out.
No welfare. No workfare. No government freebies.
Elder parents, neighbors, friends? Take care of them, or see to it that they are taken care of by someone. Pay that someone yourself if you have to. Same with kids.
Get out there and get whatever jobs are available. If no jobs, bake cookies, wash cars, wash floors, clean toilets. It's all work, folks.
We're in a hole because of government and government promises - to everyone, not just 'those, and 'those', and 'those'. EVERYONE.
Now the good times are over and it's time to pay the piper for the tune we've all danced to (rising tide raises ALLL boats) when everyone benefitted from the bubble.
Stiffen your spines, now come the bad years that inevitably follow the good years. Suck it up. Learn from it.
It's life. Get used to it.
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