The South: Moon pies and RC Cola

Typical, big-government, spend, spend, spend, socialist, stealing from future generations, deficit-creating, LIBERAL, welfare state, give to the poor, steal from the rich, wah, wah, wah, wah, blah, blah, blah...

Now that this is out of the way, we can proceed to the heart and withering soul of our argument.

It's about time! It is about time that someone elected into power by the nation's sufferers has proven himself brave enough to completely buck a system whose DNA was designed by that oh-so capable team of magicians that came to Washington in January 1981. The madness must be stopped and President Obama with his courageous budget is demonstrating that he does not seek power for power's seek--if he fails, he will not be re-elected and he knows this and he still went ahead with the most brazen and bold attempt at stemming the tide of angry, Christian, White, Southern opportunism.

Barack Obama has said it: for too long, way too many Americans have been thrown into poverty or near-poverty because of our obsession with making the rich richer via ridiculus tax cuts which had absolutely no hold in practical economic reality. The notion that the increased wealth would eventually trickle down to "employees in waiting" is unadulterated nonsense!

Trickle-down My A..

There may have been a time when that theory in practice had legs; but, any economist with a frontal lobe will tell you, when an economy is percolating along and making widgets and competing with the world for the wigdet market, an added buck or so will be invested into operations to make the given company more competitive.

However, when a economy has entered the post-industrial phase and so many of the players who have been truly enhanced by the massive corporate welfare doled over the last 28 years are already creamy rich, that added buck or so is NOT invested because their widget market (which is now not a widget but a super, high-tech widget splicer) is a) their monopoly already; and b) a market greatly affected by the elasticity of supply and demand-meaning should they make more then they will actually start to lose money!

So, the money is not invested for an increase in productivity will throw the supply and demand elasticity off-balance. What could and should be done, according to those whacky supply-siders, the owner of corporation A would ideally take that extra buck he received as the result of the corporate welfare program and invest it in medical insurance for workers; or, maybe invest it in R&D so as to make his product not just more competitive today but even more competitive tomorrow! Instead, he divies up with his cronies and shareholders and they all say "The Lord's Prayer."

And this leads us to the crux of our argument: tomorrow. President Obama's right assessment that we have NOT been planning for tomorrow since the coming to town of the Reagan Train, has led us to the moral and economic collapse we have today. Bill Clinton tried to get us on track but he was so restricted by a Republican Congress which did everything it could to distract him from governing and leading by abusing the powers of the independent council (which was actually begotten at Clinton's behest); by persecuting the President and by the near bankrupting of our government as a result of the massive debt passed on from Reagan to Bush to Clinton--which so wonderfully restricted any real investments in our society.

Anyhoo!

I will wrap this one up by commenting on the latest Ponzi scheme which was reported in the NYTimes on Saturday. The Stanford Financial Group, a Memphis-based, really sickly Southern company run like a tight-knit mom and pop shop in some backwater of a town in a state where the Confederate flag is still the preferred flag and Reagan is a god, was accused of stealing billions of dollars. And, one of the owners, James M. Davis, would open company meetings with a prayer to a light-haired Jesus with blue eyes and an ivory complexion.

Yes, I blame them. I blame the red states with their "god" and their fake patriotism. I blame the two-faced, sweet as rhubard pie smiles and "hey y'all..." for the troubles, for evils that our nation knows today. Sadly, though, when I blame them, because so many of them are so poor, I lose my class argument: when we get into the swamp that is southern society today, we are not dealing with just arrogant, despicable rich Southerners but also all of those moon-pie eating, RC Cola-drinking Gomer Pile's who think think that "white is right" and W. was like having "Jaysus in the Watt House".

The Southern slant of our national politics and its taking hostage of our economy has been an attempt by the defeated confederate states to regain much of what was lost when the war ended (and, if you say "war" to them, they still know which one you are talking about--the Civil War, only we Northerners are so naive to believe that the issues of this War are long gone).

We won that War. Now, it is time to remind them and all who are listening that we too can play some of that sappy country music, wave a flag or two and talk about a god who is good. However, what seperates our words from the words of these sickly white and religious and mostly Southern pretenders is...we love our America and we respect our Constitution. A-f.....g-Men!