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Witness the end of Constitutional America |
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Written by Dave Gould
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
NEW BEDFORD, MA; OPINION — Light in the loafers used to mean you were probably gay. A better meaning in these modern times of insanely excessive corporate greed and chronic governmental stupidity should reflect the fact that your wallet has been liberated from any spare cash, therefor making you less heavy. Which would make the term 'Light in the Loafers' mean you are the victim of government greed and government assisted corporate avarice.
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Personally, less heavy has meant darn near buoyant the last few years. Mayor Snot Lang has smoothly found a way to liberate home owners from even more of their hard earned cash and sweetly tells all he has cut our taxes and is delivering more services for the money spent. Like most loony liberals, he conveniently leaves out the part where the city increases your valuations so you pay more even though the rate is less. Most renters are oblivious to the debilitating rate increase in taxes, water fees and FAIR plan insurance. Our state government, always hungry for more has slipped little sneaky fees into everything and doubled the tax on smokes and booze. We are told service is supposed to be improved. And our friends in congress are no better. Congress woman Blarney Frank has told so many whoppers and half truths his teeth have even rotted out of his head. All he needs is some large round glasses and he could pass for Jim Backus's character Mr. Magoo.
What is an honest citizen to do? Unfortunately for most in Massachusetts, they go out and put these dolts right back into office without so much as a hint of thoughtful intelligence. Ted Kennedy will die in office instead of letting someone healthier take over. John Kerry, our favorite ME2 do nothing dummycrat will probably have to have the door knob wretched from his spindly fingers before candidate Jeff Beatty will be allowed in the state house office. Blarney Frank is already loosing body parts. What have any of these people done to make Massachusetts a thriving state accountable to the folks and not their best buds in the last 40 years. If I need to answer that question for you, then.... well then.... you haven't been paying attention or you're part of the problem.
As congress decides how best to fix a problem they and the previous Democratic president facilitated; while at the same time trying to be perceived as helping heroes – we barely scraping by citizens can only stand back and watch in amusement. I suppose if I had a 401K I might be more worried. I suppose if I had an IRA I might be concerned. If I had more than $100 bucks in my checking account for more than an hour I might be troubled. But none of these things are in my possession or in the control of about 72% of all citizens headed for retirement. If any of the current financial institutions which are in the news lately fail, it's collapse will affect only a small affluent part of the population directly. Granted some of my struggling fellow financially restrained citizens would loose their meager jobs, but for we economically fringed, such things are par for the course. Just look out your window, you can always pick through garbage for cans and scrounge for spare metal.
But if you think the failure of a few well healed and poorly managed banks are a problem, just wait till myself and the other 72% start to collect our Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security checks. Our life time contribution is far less than our potential benefits. The system, which is broke, will collapse and then what? If Barak Obama is elected, the working poor will be better insured, the addicted will be better treated and the term illegal alien will disappear along with English as the language of choice. The working will learn the tax pain of the French. The age of gimme till it hurts will be the political norm. The $700 billion dollar bail out of 2008 will be nothing but a cheap memory as the last vestiges of the America we grew up on slips into history as just another interesting experiment.Only registered users can write comments.
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