Soaring Rhetoric

I watched last night. Like a moth driven to a flame, I watched. I gag at the fawning positioning of the grand entrance. I'm distinctly nauseous as the cohorts of loyalists leap to their feet applauding vigorously at each pithy pronouncement. But I watched.

One would be disingenuous if one were to deny the obvious. They guy knows how to give a speech. He is a consummate campaigner. He can craft the strings of words that stir emotions in the placid breasts of the booboisie. If you know that what he is saying and promising is nothing but empty bags of fluff ungrounded in the real world, it loses some glamour, but still remains stirring.

Admit from the git-go that it is STIMULUS Part Deux (or Tres or Quattorce). It is a dispensing of money to chosen fortunates for the purpose of purchasing votes. It is another half trillion of money which we, as a nation, do not have in our purse.

We're going to extend his magnanimous reduction in payroll taxes. Should we note that money is what funds Social Security which is going bankrupt at an accelerating rate? Should we further note that the pitiable reduction which we experienced last January when this cut was implemented didn't show up in actual pay-check dollars because it was accompanied by a Medicare increase? And should we hammer home the oaken stake with the realization that this pittance isn't going to be enough to motivate any employer with common sense into a hiring frenzy.

Well, we're going to fight against those EVIL people (over to the right side of the chamber, hint-hint) who seek to deny collective bargaining rights to the 7% of working Americans who are suckered into Jimmy Hoffa's thugocracy.

And, we're going to stamp Made In America on crappy Chrysler products and sell them to unsuspecting Koreans in place of quality Hyundais and Kias which Americans are snapping up in preference. That is if the Messiah can ever find the trade agreement that was placed on his desk three years ago for relations with Korea so that he can sign it.

Along the flowered path we are going to rehire teachers who were let go because of constricted state and school district budgets. Pay no attention to the fact that teachers are employees of local districts whose property taxes and state taxes fund more than 90% of school costs. We're apparently going to take the money out of your other back pocket so you don't notice that you are still paying for it.

While we are at it we are going to build lots of energy efficient cars (like Volt, which the free market is ignoring) along with taking leadership in semiconductors (which we already have).

And, I'm going to be back in a week and a half to give another wonderful rousing speech that will tell you all how we are going to pay for it. I haven't figured that out yet, but I'll get Geithner and Bernanke right on the project.

Now let me wrap this speech up with "God Bless..." Ooops, mistake. That sounds like Red Skelton's sign off. Oh yeah, that should be "God Bless Amerika...wow, that sounds so foreign...."