Another letter to my dear friend Joolz

My friend Joolz sent me a link to
Comrade President Obama's
video to his supporters defending the 'Stimulus' package.

I just couldn't resist.

Click the title if you would care to watch the thing yourself.
It's your five minutes.

Joolz,

I watched it.

He’s definitely an elegant fellow. He has style and magnetism.

He’s also good with a teleprompter, but the meat of what he’s proposing in the same basic mistake Herbert Hoover (R) and FDR (D) made in the great depression. This huge spending plan is aimed at NOTHING but putting the democrat party back in power for another fifty years. Every one of their spending choices is targeted at groups that will naturally repay the party with their loyalty. Labor unions, teachers unions, the poor and immigrants to whom they will finally grant citizenship.

These same choices prolonged the great depression by 8 years.
Look it up.

And with this Eleven Hundred Billion Dollar proposed spending plan they do nothing, not one thing to work toward solving the housing problem Barney Frank (D) created along with his boyfriend at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac forcing banks to make loans to people who were not qualified. (I can defend this statement with verifiable facts.)

NOTHING!

The basic root problem with the entire economy and they don’t even discuss it! Could it have escaped their exalted attention? Maybe it was just an oversight, I mean it’s not like any one human ever reads these damned bills from cover to cover. But if they purposefully neglected the problem, ask yourself why they would do that? Could they be exploiting a soluble situation for political gain? Hmmm… (And no, I don’t think the republicans are any less corrupt. I don’t like anyone making a living in D.C.)

Why is this acceptable to you? I’ve spoken with you at length over several years. I know you’re not stupid or ill-informed but does your kind-hearted concern for some poverty stricken family in New Orleans or whereverthehell they might be completely supersede your own best interests? Julie, people in our line of work went nearly a decade without employment in our field the last time this stunt was tried. Architects were pushing brooms and draftsmen were selling apples on the corner. This has the potential to be at least that bad.

That terrifies me.

Comrade President Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are making the same choices and steering the country down the same road we walked barefooted in the 1930’s. The parallels are mind-blowing. Again, look it up.

If you try the same thing again, why would you expect different results? It didn’t work then, it won’t work now! It took an entire planet being at war, 50 million deaths and Europe virtually in ruins to finally break the back of that down-turn. Is that a price worth paying so that incomes can be leveled and wealth more fairly distributed?

That is the most basic flaw in socialism, the myth that wealth is distributed. Wealth is created by individuals and no one has any right to anything I create unless I allow them. Margret Thatcher said, “Socialism only works until you run out of someone else’s money.” She was right!

I have no interest in swinging a pick in some trumped-up WPA work crew to add another highway we don’t need (Like my grandfather did). Neither do I want to plant trees in some national park or re-sod the Mall in D.C. (You did notice the $220 million they wanted for that little boondoggle, didn’t you? That would work out to $1.2 million per acre. Where do these damned people shop?)

I’m a designer and a damned good one. That’s what I’ve trained my entire life for starting at age 12. I have no interest in a career change, but your party leaders are now doing their best to enact legislation that would cap the incomes of the very people we call clients. Rohm Emmanuel said the other day that this administration was looking into extending the $500g earnings cap to all corporate entities. Why would an already wealthy person put up with that? You think they can’t just move their assets and set up shop in Ireland? And there are other countries that would welcome an influx of wealth and provide a non-confiscatory environment for creating and maintaining wealth. (Yeah, closing a factory here and rebuilding elsewhere would be a huge hit, but counter-balance that with our incredibly high corporate taxes and the out-right confiscation the democrats are planning and suddenly it just becomes a good business decision.)

If your party leaders get their way (and they will, bipartisanship be damned) this country is going to change from a meritocracy into an egalitarian hell-hole and it will happen quickly. Everyone will finally be equally poor, except our glorious leaders. They shall be more equal than we. You think Pelosi or Reid or Kennedy are going to do anything to hurt their multi-million dollar fortunes or the industries on which they are based? They don’t even pay their taxes now until they are picked for some high office. They are not stupid, but they are power-crazed and they are hypocrites. I really don’t know how you can see them in any other light. Personally, I’m so disgusted with all of them already I can’t see straight.

If you choose to answer any of my questions, which I hope you do, please also tell me for whom will we work if the entrepreneurs leave? And would you really enjoy being a bureaucrat or a ditch-digger?

On a more personal note, I hope you are doing well. That goes for your kids and job search as well.

And thanks for sending this clip. I needed to get my heart rate up and this saved me 20 minutes on the elliptical.

You friend and still clutching the shreds of the Constitution,

Demosthenes