We have this gigantic flu/bronchitis/cold thing going on in Charleston and for the last 3 wks I have been having a ball fighting it. One thing that woke me up in a hurry is the idea of Mark Sanford running for Tim "Dredge" Scott's old house seat, which unfortunately is my congressional district. Anyhow like Jimmy Swaggart he has cried into the microphone and been forgiven by God and his tea party constituency so that makes him an excellent choice for US Congressman, next to a dead mule and a drunk buzzard. Meanwhile in our neighboring state of Georgia, former Congressman Martin Luther King III and his wife are headed for the local club fed for campaign finance violations. Its been one of those interesting weeks.
Anyway, with all of this and the rest of the political nonsense that has assaulted my ears over the last week, I got to thinking about something that had slipped my mind in the cacophony. The first 3 letters on the word Congress spell CON
! I don't quite know how it had skipped my mind. Maybe I was suffering from diatribe overload. But tonight as I listened to right wing assertions and guarantees that sequestration is the only cure and austerity will save our country's economy, I felt like the country bumpkin walking down main street and been inundated by the local shills for the 3 card Monte games outside the barroom. He might had had $10.00 when he left the hotel, but damn sure didn't have room rent when he got back.
What I've been listening to reminds of the con job the Rockafeller' did with old John D and his dimes. This at a time when the man was worth in today's dollars more than $114B. But good advertising changed image of the octopus of oil into a benevolent older gentleman, kind to children, animals and kitty cats. Small wonder these days there's more sawdust than cereal in dog food.
Kind of like all the deficit and debt solutions you hear about. To me they kind of boiled down to 3 things, privatize, eliminate, or underfund. The one I like best is that our economy will be just perfect if we eliminate social security, repeal Obamacare, and eliminate all social spending entirely. Now the con comes in because there is always a promise somewhere that it will be replaced by something, but there's no clear explanation as to just what that something is, and they always want to get rid of it before what replaces it is in place. That kind of reminds of of buying a boat from someone without inspecting it - only to find out that the bottom is held in with bubblegum and papier mache'.
Anyway those are my random thoughts for a Tuesday night /Wednesday morning, and oh yeah, tomorrow will be a whole better day.
Tai Pan
Anyway, with all of this and the rest of the political nonsense that has assaulted my ears over the last week, I got to thinking about something that had slipped my mind in the cacophony. The first 3 letters on the word Congress spell CON
! I don't quite know how it had skipped my mind. Maybe I was suffering from diatribe overload. But tonight as I listened to right wing assertions and guarantees that sequestration is the only cure and austerity will save our country's economy, I felt like the country bumpkin walking down main street and been inundated by the local shills for the 3 card Monte games outside the barroom. He might had had $10.00 when he left the hotel, but damn sure didn't have room rent when he got back.
What I've been listening to reminds of the con job the Rockafeller' did with old John D and his dimes. This at a time when the man was worth in today's dollars more than $114B. But good advertising changed image of the octopus of oil into a benevolent older gentleman, kind to children, animals and kitty cats. Small wonder these days there's more sawdust than cereal in dog food.
Kind of like all the deficit and debt solutions you hear about. To me they kind of boiled down to 3 things, privatize, eliminate, or underfund. The one I like best is that our economy will be just perfect if we eliminate social security, repeal Obamacare, and eliminate all social spending entirely. Now the con comes in because there is always a promise somewhere that it will be replaced by something, but there's no clear explanation as to just what that something is, and they always want to get rid of it before what replaces it is in place. That kind of reminds of of buying a boat from someone without inspecting it - only to find out that the bottom is held in with bubblegum and papier mache'.
Anyway those are my random thoughts for a Tuesday night /Wednesday morning, and oh yeah, tomorrow will be a whole better day.
Tai Pan
