Tough Love

The Romney video now circulating is a great window into how much rich people truly love us. After all, they only want to take away our entitlements because they care so deeply about our character. Even our soul! As we know, when children are given something for free and begin to feel entitled, they become idle and spoiled and given to tantrums. Right Beak? That is why it is necessary for Father to impose a little discipline, make you take out the garbage before you can have your allowance, etc. Not only does it teach the value of money (cash = diligence), but it builds confidence, a Can Do spirit! For goodness sake, you don't have to look any farther than the Negro Problem. Johnson and the liberals promise them a Great Society and the next thing you know they are all smoking crack, breeding like rabbits and drinking cheap champagne right out of the bottle! Costing us millions in prison uniforms (unless you are invested in uniforms!) Now, if for some reason you just don't "make the grade", if you are weak and fall behind, well, Nature teaches us something about what happens to the runt of the litter. There is a gene pool to consider! Those folks finishing their lobster while listening to our nations next CEO absorbed those lessons long ago- hence the lobster! No hand-outs for them! They built it, after all, they pay the taxes, and they have the moral fiber and fortitude to get going on another American Century. Which basically means investing in China. On the other side, we have Thomas Frank whining in the latest Harpers that Obama let him down, let us all down, but the Free Market experiment of these True Believers will usher in a frightening "existential" moment. What he calls the wrecking crew and their passion for "pure capitalism" will cause "devastation"! Even though he knows that "Obama and his allies" are as "detached and remote as the Bush people" and that "on his watch the oceans continued to rise, the banks got bigger and the wars sputtered on", he will "choose the safe" maintenance crew, those who will maintain the status quo. Thomas Frank is an exemplary liberal or "progressive", cowered into an untenable position year after pathetic year. He cannot "want what he truly desires" because to do so would force him to admit how wrong he has been about incremental reform, about the promise of "democratically regulated capitalism", about the contradictions of liberalism itself. Good to see you back as well, Ducky. My absence was due to time spent elsewhere, mainly www.iopsociety.org which i think you might find interesting as well.