Barack FDR Obama

The times demand bold actions. In a similar way that FDR played with the price of gold from his bed each morning in the White House, so too must Obama continuing doing what he is doing. He is writing new rules to the US economy and there is simply no playbook--they are like the rules we all have applied when we made up games in childhood: "ok, if you tag me but I am eating my ice cream at the time, then I am not it."

President Obama's strategy is a multi-layered one. Complainers who claim his increasing of the deficit threatens to ruin our nation--and on this bandwagon are some reknown economists--are the same people who sat back and enjoyed the deregulation ride; and, in the case of the economists, failed to predict the imminent collapse of the Anglo-American Economic system as set to stone at Bretton-Woods in 1944.

FDR

FDR did a lot of things wrong actually. He was tinkering with the fate of the world's economy because he really had no idea what needed to be done. There was no existing panacea for that era's woes and the same holds true today: our world is a lot different from what it used to be thanks to hyper-deregulation and the creation of "virtual wealth" (VW).

We, the prostelytizers, the white, we-know-everything, God-fearing, Christian-for-the-most-part Americans were wrong! And today, the entire world is gripped by seeds of greed planted by these God-fearing Christians. What boggles my mind and truly empassions me to despise these fat-asses is that they really do pretend to believe in God--"God Bless", they say like others say "hey, what's up"--and they truly believe that they are right in every belief they hold. Many of these knuckleheads would have supported slavery and fought for the Confederacy had they been alive.

The wonderful thing about Obama's attempts at getting our nation running again is that is what they are: attempts. He is trying! He is giving it the old college try with hefty doses of creativity and small pinches of compromise. Interest groups on both the left and the right complain that he isn't doing enough. Repigs will say that he should be cutting taxes to stimulate business (yeah, like that will fly in this climate of hate towards those wealthy widget-makers; afterall, we have seen what they were making for the past 20 years, VW--see above).

Armadillos

Unlike W. who was frozen like an armadillo in the headlights, Obama has been shaking things up and in the vein of FDR, first, you float it out there and get the talking heads chirping and then make some corrections (granted sometimes they have only changed the name of their remedies and not altered the content). They are churning out programs, weaving together long-overdue reform that will not only create jobs in and of itself but will also benefit the expanding ranks of the working poor (and the vanishing middle class).

Mythes

The Depression of the 1930's was not ended by the onset of WWII: that just served to be a great jobs program and then we sort of forgot about the depression. No, FDR paved the way for a better America and a then a dreamy, young man who received the benefits of that America, Ron Reagan, came along and commenced the financial dismantling of our government.

As I write this today, pistachios are being recalled for salmonella; yet, another example of our government failing to protect us from greedy businessmen. It used to be the ghettoes were only the real and living example of Republican anti-government programs; today, eating peanut butter or nuts can result in death. Our own ktichen cupboards have become as dangerous as a ghetto, a post office, a Michael's Craft Store (no gun control) or an abortion clinic (those Christian people, save a live by killing).

Anyhoo...President Obama should be praised for trying and sooner or later, like FDR, he will find the right mix and we will recover. Unitl then, anyone with tired ideas--anything heard from a conservative, a repig or on Fox TV--should move to Bermuda or somewhere.

We need a new TVA; actually, we have it and it is called wind power!