I'm feeling a little tetchy.
I live in Maryland, where the estimate is that we will be having to spend some 11 million dollars as a result of the upcoming inauguration.
It appears now that our governor is asking that we not use the major road - the beltway - during that time.
Right.
Fairness at work. We pay for others. Fine, but who pays for me? That's where it always seems to break down.
Kind of like a pyramid scheme, you know? Which is pretty much the same thing as a Ponzi Scheme, which we keep hearing about on account of the arrest of Bernard Madoff, who is alleged to have caused a "loss" of some 50 BILLION dollars to his "investors".
Chump change, compared to the numbers contemplated by the various bailouts being tossed about by "Our Government".
When you stop to think about it, this is a Ponzi Scheme taken to new heights, in that we are not even "investing" money we have at this point. We're being set up to lose money we've borrowed. Who we're borrowing from is a little less certain, as is who will be paying it back. It's all magic. It's all about grabbing what you can, when you can. Sort of like Ireland, which used E.U. subsidies to build its infrastructure (leading to its "Celtic Tiger" booming economy) but which is a recent hold-out on ratifying an E.U. Constitution finalizing the formal relationship. It has also announced that it is opting out of a proposed 200 Billion euro European Union "Recovery Plan."
That's the problem with Ponzi schemes. The minute the have-nots become overnight haves, they stop wanting to give to have-nots. They "opt out." I am not being given that opportunity. Neither, however, have I been handed subsidies. What's wrong with this picture?
Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed pages, by the way: "Atlas Shrugged": From Fact to Fiction in 52 Years.
Our lotto mentality has come home to roost. Nothing will change until we start working again. Hard work. For a long time. No more get-rich-quick schemes or overnight fixes.
Meanwhile, I think I'll take the beginning of next week off. And to preserve any semblance of a positive outlook, I think I'll also keep the television switched off. I've had about all the hope I can stand.
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"I've had about all the hope I can stand."
Amen! Whatever happened to the hard work ethic?
Well - here we are, one year later. I'm thinking we'll be hearing more and more of the hard work ethic, Lemon Stand! Somewhere, someone seems to have remembered that money and work are connected - and that spending money means that somebody, somewhere, has to WORK. Who's it going to be?
A simple thought, really. But easy to overlook when you are spending "someone else's" money.
Looking at it that way, our Government's "spending" can look an awful lot like forced labor camps.
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