Not Wanting To Bet

I seem bent to say a few things scurrying about my mind after a bout with the CNN pundits I recently saw at the airport.

Everything in liberal land seems validated by an opinion. In fact with out a famous opinion to bandy about there seems to be no fact worthy of contemplation with these elite. The news anchor seemed quite satisfied with the expert they paid to tell them how the new staggering national debt would be paid off when the recession goes away. After all, we’ve had just about enough of the damn thing and recovery pressures are soon surfacing that will reconcile with everything the president has done; (this went on and on like a professor describing the relationship between voltage and current).

Perceptions these days enjoy such a protracted lifetime fluttering through the media, settling on this mind and that, that they actually begin to seem real. These bubbles of fancy just never seem to pop. We are deep in a recession from over-leveraged debt, and the magical asymptote flattens so nicely if you start all over again with a new piece of graph paper.

Maybe we really can borrow so much money as to frighten the recession away. The trick is of course, to convince everyone that, “Yes We Can,” actually means, “Yes We Are.”

Then, just do it.

Borrow more than anyone else ever has in the history of the human race and proclaim loudly (very loudly it seems), that it is working. We will fix the recession with massive health care spending because our bad health care system, (which of course has caused bankruptcies to those ruined by too much of it), is too expensive. "Magical" government intervention will make all the bad stuff in medicine, all the inequities between the “haves” and “have not’s” go away. All we have to do is pass this damned bill now!

But we did now already, several times.

As long as the press can convince people that Obama has magic, the magic will go on. What would magic be without perception? Misdirection? Deception? Illusion? Is this what Americans have been reduced to believing in?

Yes.

“Yes We Can.”

There is an unwillingness, even a palpable fear with these liberal church folk when you start talking about the second coming of reality.

Some kind of reckoning with cause and effect can only be trouble for the liberals out there.

The ball has dropped. In fact several of them have dropped.

They are:

1) Terrorists with nukes;
2) A worldwide economic depression and;
3) A massive loss of liberty to name only a few.

The balls are falling from such a height, however, that there is a sort of weird fascination with the idea that the few years it will take for these leaden balls to fall and create utterly craterous doom seems to be so long as to seem meaningless.

We have learned to re-think our existence into the short span of a sound bite. It seems we can’t hear anything falling but we can hear lots of soothing Obama. So soothe away.

“Yes We Can,” seems to have leapt to, “Yes We Are.”

But are we really?

1) Are we really going to charm Iran out of being a nuclear bully?

2) Are we really creating millions of jobs?

3) Are we really going to save mommy earth with cap and trade?

Really?

Cause and effect is our chain of time and for 5 billion years, tomorrow’s links have come to this earth without a hitch or delay.

I don’t like the odds, sound bites not withstanding.

Milton