Being born above my dad’s grocery store and being immersed in the grocery business, Summers and weekends, for many years, I thought I knew a few of its tricks. I’m now finding out how little I knew.
Admittedly, I have not had much recent connection with the industry, as my father retired about 25 years ago. He ended up in charge of a major regional chain’s warehouse.
Why have I had this recent epiphany? Why am I reading every label? I am on a diet.
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My occasional resort to language of a somewhat bombastic flavor may lead some to believe that I generally take an aggressive stance on practically every issue. That’s not necessarily so, but in the matter of class war, I am a super hawk.
Oh, am I not being divisive? No. It’s several generations too late for that. The war has been in progress since before Old Hickory was president. And that’s just in this country. It actually began millennia ago.
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I just wanted to share a couple of quick thoughts today.
Regular readers will be surprised at how short this post is – not too pleasantly surprised, I hope.
The common thread of these two subjects is stupidity. I promise to limit it to two, though you might be aware that we are suffering from a pandemic.
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Once upon a time we had a president that knew how to lead. Admittedly, he sometimes accomplished it by dragging congressmen by their nose.
Next we had a paranoid psychotic who thought he was a leader. Strangely, the public largely bought into his delusion.
Come the presidential election of 1976 and the people were weary of strong ‘leaders,’ the war, the economy, et al. The parties measured the mood of the public. That election cycle both parties offered non-leaders as candidates.
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Don’t listen. They are all saying the same thing, so it must be wrong. There aren’t that many intelligent people in finance, politics and the media.
We are assured that the crash of the stock market is the result of our massive debt. Really? The market, whose computers are among the fastest in the world, took four days to react to the government’s failure to really address the debt.
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Ah. The good old days are returning. If you can remember The Great Depression, get ready for déjà vu.
Eighty-odd, very odd, imbeciles have done more damage to this country than we can presently foresee.
You thought that you lived in a democracy. If you count Pakistan, Mexico and Iraq as models of democracy, then you’re right.
Didn’t we once have a democracy we were proud of? Now we know that an out of control minority can get their druthers by blackmail and obstruction of the democratic process.
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It’s about time someone got serious. It obviously isn’t going to be anyone inside the Beltway.
The politicians consider their careers and their juvenile ideologies more important than the well-being of the nation and its people. Why are we not blanketing this country with recall petitions. Why are we not exhibiting a similar, reciprocal disdain for their jobs and their well-being?
Have they finally emasculated the American people? Have they accomplished what al-Qaeda failed to do?
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Eureka!
There; I said it.
While everyone else is looking at pieces of the problem, I found the crux. Therein, I also found the solution.
The only catch is that our leaders have not the intelligence, inclination or interest in fixing it.
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Yes, I’m back from vacation. I know. You didn’t even realize I was gone.
Well, it wasn’t really a vacation. It was 9 days at Fall Creek Falls State Park with about 70 of my wife’s relatives. No it wasn’t as bad as it sounds.
Actually there is a little good came about while I was there. Perhaps I should relate that before preaching on the topic of the day. [click to continue…]
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What caused the debt? That sounds like an easy question. Could that be the problem?
One would hope that our “leaders” could get their arms around a simple question. Well, apparently we never learn.
The short-bus riders on The Hill are pretending to deal with what to do about the debt. It seems logical to ask the question in the title of this article before addressing any possible solutions. Knowing how you got here might be helpful in finding your way back.
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