While reading a short essay by Donald H Grove, I was pleasantly surprised to
learn of Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) who "is a member of the US House Financial
Services Committee helping to hold the line against chairman Barney Frank",
which automatically makes her one of my favorite people, although she would be
a bigger favorite of mine if she were a hot foxy lady known for "viciously
attacking chairman Barney Frank while dressed in a scanty cheerleader outfit."
Anyway, it turns out that she explained to the Washington Times, "someone has
to pay for [the stimulus package] whether it's today's taxpayers or their
children and grandchildren. There comes a time when government simply cannot
provide enough government jobs to bolster the economy. There comes a time
when the taxpayers' burden to pay for all of the projects is too heavy to
carry."
I think, "Hooray! Bravo! Well said!" In fact, I was so pleased that I called
her office, and told the receptionist that I wanted to talk to Ms Bachmann, and
she asked me what it was that I wanted to discuss. So I told her that I would
like to speak to Ms. Bachmann to suggest that since she is on the same
committee as the ridiculous and dangerous Barney Frank whose preposterous
Democrat "equality of outcomes at any cost" dogma has ruined America, she
should order a Mogambo All-Purpose Whacker (MAPW), which is made in America,
from an American baseball bat (also made in America), but with the tell-tale
"Louisville Slugger" trademark painted over, so that the next time this Frank
clown starts up with that ridiculous and disastrous socialist/fascist/communist
crap of his, she can reach out and pop him a good one upside the head with that
MAPW and maybe knock some smarts into his thick head! She'd be doing a public
good! Hahaha!
I may be overly sensitive, but it seemed that the receptionist gave a little
gasp, her voice got frosty and officious, and abruptly told me that Ms Bachmann
would get back to me, and then she hung up on me.
So I expect Ms Bachmann to, you know, call me back pretty soon, and as I wait
for her call, I mull over her statement that "Somebody has to pay," because she
is Absolutely Freaking Right (AFR), of course. If she were just talking about
personal income taxes, then everybody would immediately object, and say, "Have
me pay higher taxes for government idiocy? No freaking way!"
I am grateful that the conversation has not turned to taxing me since I must
have too much money, seeing that I spend so much money on myself and so little
on my family and how I am a lousy husband and father for whom a long prison
sentence is better than I deserve and blah blah blah. Instead, she is not only
talking about taxation, but she is also talking about the horrific inflation in
the prices of things that will result from all of this governmental deficit
spending, which is appropriate since inflation has been compared to a tax in
that it makes prices go up.
And inflation in prices which is what you get when taxes paid by businesses are
added, like all other expenses, to the business's costs of production, and I
notice that nobody is bellyaching about that, even though the poor, or
children, or poor children, or poor children who have children, who may or may
not also be poor, are used like cudgels by the government to beat taxes out of
us on their behalf so as to give money to these poor, these poor children, et
al, which makes prices go up.
Thus, these selfsame poor, suffering people, end up suffering even MORE of the
deprivations of not having enough money to buy the stuff they need, by (wait
for the punch line!) having things cost more! Hahaha!
And they cost more when more government taxes are levied on businesses and
sales, which are just expenses that get added to the costs of things that the
poor have to buy, so that the government could get the money to give to the
poor, which made prices go up to cover the cost of the tax! Hahaha! What a
system!
What can you do but laugh at a nation that prides itself on its emphasis on
being smart and educated, and yet we get the Democrat Party? Hahaha! Okay, I
will not go into a smear campaign against Democrats and the laughable,
bankrupting stupidities they believe as a necessary part of "wanting to do
good", especially now that we Republicans have turned out to be the worst kind
of corrupt political trash in living memory, and we don't have the right to
claim respect from anybody, which embarrasses the hell out of me, but which is
another story for another time when I am a LOT more drunk and I can get a LOT
more belligerent.
In the meantime, if you are like me - who is like Peter Finch's character in
the movie Network - then you are either at or near the point where you
are standing in the street screaming, "I am as mad as hell and I'm not going to
take this anymore!"
As bad as this is on the relationships you have with your neighbors, then you
really Go Freaking Ballistic (GFB) when you also realize that the inflation in
prices due to government taxes is probably chickenfeed compared to the
inflation in prices that will be caused by the damnable Federal Reserve
continuing to create vast, uncountable tons of new money and credit, and then
you start screaming anew, and everybody is looking around and asking, "What in
the hell bothering you now, you weird old man?" like they don't know! See the
kind of stupid crap I have to put up with all the time?
One of these days, I swear, I am going to go freaking berserk, and people will
want to know, and police investigators will want to know, as people all over
the place will want to know, "What in the hell happened?" and, "How did a
maniac like that get an anti-aircraft cannon, anyway?" even as they continue to
deny the existence of invisible government helicopters without offering any
proof at all, and likewise continuing to believe that the problems caused by
the bust, caused by the boom, caused by the Federal Reserve creating the money
and credit necessary, caused by the federal government's deficit-spending, can
be solved by more booms caused by the Federal Reserve creating the money and
credit necessary, caused by the federal government's deficit-spending!
Hahahaha!
Well, Ms Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) can't seem to "find the time" to return my
call about knocking sense into certain people's heads "the old-fashioned way",
but she has nevertheless found the time to say that "Government should not take
on the role of creating the jobs and buying the goods", to which I say, "'Take
on'? Did you say 'take on'? Hell, where have you been all this time, as
government spending now accounts for half of all spending in America, and where
the government is also responsible for half of all employment as the result of
all of that government spending? 'Take on the role of creating jobs and buying
the goods?' Gimme a break! Hahahaha!"
Since I never met her, I can only imagine that she is now resentful of the
interruption and the snide joke at her expense, as were so many others all
those other times when I viciously attacked other people all out of any sense
of proportion. So, before I give her a chance to really bust my chops, I will
sum up with a quick tip for you to get up off your lazy butt and go buy gold,
silver and oil to save yourself when the inflation in prices starts really
raging from this inflation in the money supply.
And my last piece of advice, as I head out the door, is to stay away from Ms
Bachmann for a while; I hear she is really angry about something!
Richard Daughty is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group,
serving the financial and medical communities, and the editor of The Mogambo
Guru economic newsletter - an avocational exercise to heap disrespect on those
who desperately deserve it.
(Republished with permission from
The Daily Reckoning. Copyright 2009, The Daily Reckoning.)
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