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Let's say that you (Jimmy) and your brother (Boehner) go Trick or Treating.
You (Jimmy) come home with a big sack of sweet jelly beans and you put them in a jar for safe keeping.
Your brother (Boehner) comes home with a bag fully of jelly beans. He invites his friends over and together they have a big party and finish off the jelly beans in a very short time. All your brother (Boehner) has left is a sack full of wormy apples.
Your brother (Boehner) sees the sweet jelly beans that you saved and wants them for himself. So he picks a fight with the neighbor's kid and throws what remains of his wormy apples at that kid who, it turns out, didn't actually have the beebee gun your brother thought he had but was mean anyway and deserved everything he got.
Your brother (Boehner) comes back in the house and looks at his empty sack where the jelly beans he and his friends ate and the wormy apples had been and then notices your beautiful jar of sweet jelly beans. And he gets real hungry for jelly beans.
So your brother (Boehner) goes to your dad (Obama) and says, "Oh, daddy. All my treats from trick or treat night are gone. The neighbor's kid took 'em. Jimmy's got a big jar of sweet jelly beans. Can I have some? He's not sharing."
And daddy (Obama) says, "Of course, dear. We have to make you whole. And you owe so many kids so many jelly beans. We have to help you out. So, yes, you can have some of Jimmy's sweet jelly beans. He's got so many. Wouldn't want you to let your friends down."
That's what Obama is doing, and that is what we are so mad about here at DU.
Boehner's rich friends ate their jelly beans when they got their tax cuts. All that was left in the treasury was a sack of wormy apples. And so they started a war in Iraq and threw all their wormy apples at the Iraqis (poor, poor souls).
As soon as Obama got into office and it became clear that the goodies sack, our national treasury was empty -- eaten by the tax cuts to the rich and thrown away at the neighbor kid -- Boehner and his Republican friends began looking at your jar of jelly beans -- the Social Security trust fund that we saved in Treasury bonds.
So that is where we are. Obama is giving away what the American people saved for their "Golden Years" to the rich Republicans who spent their sweet tax cuts on a big party called Wall Street derivatives and wasted borrowed money (the wormy apples) on their war in Iraq.
So, if you want to know what this is about, it's about the good kid (you) that saved the jelly beans and the bad kid (Boehner and his rich friends) who ate all his and how Daddy (Obama) is trying to make peace by giving the good kid's jelly beans to the bad kid (Boehner and his rich friends).
And as every parent knows, Obama and Boehner are wrong. You don't punish the kids who saved their jelly beans. You make the kid who threw a big party for his friends and who threw away the rest in Iraq do without.
That means that Obama should leave the Social Security and Medicare money alone and teach the rich wastrels (especially those on Wall Street) who ate all their jelly beans in tax cuts and threw away what was left in Iraq pay higher taxes. Don't take the jelly beans away from the good kids who saved.
Of course, in the real world, Obama is just as intent into breaking into the people's jelly bean jar as our brother Boehner is. In the real world, the problem is that the private sector is gobbling up the public sector.
Now, our American Revolution was against monarchy. A monarchy exists when one guy and a few of his buddies own everything. And nobody gets to decide what is done except the monarch and his buddies.
In a monarchy, everything is in the hands of the rich, and nothing is in the hands of the poor. The things the government owns are owned by everybody. So when the government is representative as our is, everybody owns what the government owns. What Obama and the Republicans are trying to do is hand out all the jelly beans to the private sector -- that is to the rich guys. Eventually, one of the rich guys will get all the jelly beans and declare himself king -- and then we will have a monarchy.
Obviously, we don't want to much of everything to be in everybody's hands, that is in the public sector. If we did that, we would have chaos and too much squabbling over every tiny thing from who should hand whom a wrench to who could walk where on what sidewalk.
But the way things are going now -- and if we actually allow ourselves to be cowed into repaying all this debt that we owe to private parties -- we will end up in a monarchy where a few very rich people on this planet eventually just have a big war to decide who should be king of all the kings.
Se we should strive toward balance. And the first step we need to take is to protect our jelly beans jar -- the one we set aside for that rainy day when we can't work any more. And we need to tell the very rich people -- like those guys in the hedge funds on Wall Street -- that they need to put more jelly beans into the family's regular jelly beans jar and leave the jelly beans we put in our jar for a rainy retirement day alone.
In other words, raise taxes on the rich before they own you.
Sorry for the ramble, but I'm kind of depressed that people are not seeing through what is going on.
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