Every once in a while, I get scared. Yes. Me. No, I’m not afraid to walk down the street in the dark in a pair of high heels, stockings and my skirt above the knees (although if the psycho religious zealots have their way, I’d probably be beheaded for my audacity – or at the very least, stuffed into a fashionable burqa). I have no fear of boogie men under my bed or grizzly bears in my backyard. I am afraid of bugs – I freely admit it – and I’m not wild about reptiles either. There’s something visceral and cold about them. But the fear I’m talking about here is a frigid, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that keeps gnawing away at me every time I turn on the radio or television news.
My first thought is always, “Fuck! What’s next?”
Surprisingly, I woke up this morning to find there were no pink unicorns shitting gold coins in my front yard. None in my backyard either. I was wholly disappointed, because the Prez signed the trillion-dollar stimulus yesterday, and I was expecting the stock market to soar, the birds to chirp, every American to have a job, and the mythical unicorn to be standing on my lawn with a pile of treasure under its ass.
That didn’t happen, even though the politicians screeched like rabid banshees that the stimulus needs to pass NOW NOW NOW NOW, and that gazillions of jobs – even more than the actual population of the United Statets – would be lost unless the stimulus passed. The stimulus would cure all!
Instead, stocks plunged nearly 300 points (I guess the cure-all stimulus didn’t solve that little problem), the automakers are trying to extort yet more money from the government, threatening to cut jobs and put a big, dark stain on Dear Leader’s plan to bring sunshine and prosperity to each and every one of us, and the Republicans, unsatisfied with their status as Socialists Lite(tm), have decided to open wide and swallow the late Uncle Karl’s schlong whole.
“I would not take off the idea
of nationalizing the banks,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), said on
ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”Graham, a
confidant of former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.),
said that the problems in the economy and the financial sector are so
severe that U.S. policy makers may have to start thinking about things
once labeled unthinkable.“This idea of nationalizing banks is
not comfortable,” said Graham, appearing downcast. “But I think we have
gotten so many toxic assets spread throughout the banking and financial
community throughout the world that we’re going to have to do something
that no one ever envisioned a year ago, no one likes.”
NOT UNCOMFORTABLE??? The thought of nationalization is NOT UNCOMFORTABLE????? The very entity that purchases $500 toilet seats, can’t seem to spend within its means, was largely responsible for causing the economic downturn in the first place, and has pushed mortgage companies into handing out gargantuan loans to those who couldn’t afford payments so the politicians could brag about “minority home ownership” now wants control of our banking system. And the guy YOU voted for to run for President on the Republican ticket isn’t opposed to the idea! Neither is Alan Greenspan, who turned out to be nothing but a traitor to the ideals of a free market.
This is why I’m scared. My parents and I came to this country in hopes of getting away from the socialism that gradually eats up and destroys everything that this nation is built upon: achievement, competition and freedom… and now, I’m right back in hell, hoping to God and Goddess that the republic holds up, which is definitely in doubt, as far as I’m concerned. That scares me.
When the subject of nationalizing oil companies first came up last year, socialist twunt Maxine Waters was all for it. “Guess
what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about
socializing,” she said, pausing, “would be about, basically, taking
over, and the government running all of your companies.”
At least Waters is honest about her Marxist intentions. I can appreciate that.
I just wish the Republicans, who have always claimed to be the party of limited government, weren’t just paying lip service to the concept.
Freedom has no allies left. Not ones with any kind of power to change anything.
Feb 18, 2009 @ 17:17:44
Considering, given the conveyed attitudes of the new administration, that government saves jobs, creates jobs, and knows best via an all-encompassing adaptation of loco parentis (vapidly suckled by the adoring throngs that brought said administration to power) we peasants enjoy the closing vocalizations of dissent with CARNIVORE-monitored tolerance because the juggernaut is still building up a full head of steam. Nicki, our CONUS version of Tienanmen Square probably won’t see a woman stopping a tank; sadly, too, that. We’re only workers for the Federal Reserve, since merely mortgaging our inheritors’ very lives brought out no lawful civil unrest of statistically significant substance. As long as the ATM card works, I believe the socialization of the world will push forward, leaving us to battery-powered toys while Liberty’s Teeth gather dust and slowly rust.Our letters and phone calls to the anointed on Capitol Hill are less than gnats in truth because the numbers aren’t present to the tens of millions – and were a collective “threat” within them perceived, the waiting powers of “A National Emergency” would be enacted.So here we are. Hopefully some millions of heels are digging in and spines strengthening, quietly. We are our only allies; there is no safe haven awaiting our retreat across whose threshold we might slap the dust from our shoes, and out inheritors, indeed all who grasp at any dream of liberty may have that precious light fading from their hearts as their eyes no longer look up as the realization of the yoke of debt is nigh crushing and job security is fragile indeed.But I say this is the very time to hope! Hope that that almost forgotten breed, that once new breed of man called Americans may, in all their spectacular diversity unite with one commitment – fulfill the vision of the Great Experiment and light the fires to unquenchable brilliance in our souls, venerating the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution against all enemies because we know the failures of socialism, the failures of absolute power in the hands of the arrogant and we know the joy awaiting our success as we renew “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”We have work that needs, so very earnestly, to be done.Or the future inherits the mantle of voles, scampering timidly amidst the cemeteries of forgotten titans, terrified of the sound of heavy, booted feet. . .
Feb 19, 2009 @ 13:45:46
Ok, the soap box is about to be turned off (think Fairness Doctrine). The ballot box didn’t work (a senile old fart on our side and the most corrupt political machine since Tammany Hall on the other).So, when do we open up the ammo box? Seriously?
Feb 20, 2009 @ 12:50:59
Well! Once again, it’s demonstrated that no post that begins with high heels and a short skirt can turn out badly.I advise against placing any trust in the Republican Party, or in electoral politics as such. At this point, both parties are utterly controlled by statists whose sole goal is total power. They merely disguise their ambitions with different rhetoric.Americans must once again become the defenders of their own rights and the enforcers of Constitutional requirements. Nothing else will serve.(By the way, this psycho religious zealot (Catholic variety) has no desire to behead you or see you in a burq’a. You might want to discriminate — yes, I know that’s a forbidden word — among us a little more specifically.)
Feb 20, 2009 @ 12:54:36
*grin*Do not worry, good sir! I don’t consider all religious people zealots – merely those who would impose their faith, their beliefs and their standards upon me by force. You’re safe from my wrath!