We have reported and commented here on the fact that the current economic woes in the United States, far from being the worst “since the Great Depression”, as the President would have it, are in fact a fairly typical run-of-the-mill recession whose danger lies mainly in the Federal response.
No, this isn’t about the Republicans in Congress. While President Obama and his party members on the Hill are certainly trying hard to ignore the opposition, that is hardly enough of a feat to justify the reference. To add insult to injury, the GOP elephants’ worst enemies are rogue RINOs!
Which does bring us around to the recently enacted trillion dollar boondoggle, and the title of this post.
Starting long before President Obama, or even George W. Bush, the elephant in the room of the United States has been the true size and nature of what the Federal government owes.
While press and pundit reports can be informative and fun, it is always better, when practicable, to get things straight from the horse’s mouth, as the saying goes… or the one-horned horse’s mouth, as the case may be.
President Obama, on not-his-first ride aboard Presidential helicopter Marine One, has managed to add to the list of continuations he is alleged to represent of previous Aministrations. (view here)
We have heard of the Second Term of Jimmy Carter, the Third Term of Bill Clinton, and the Third Term of George Dubya Bush.
Now we have the Second Term of … (drum roll) … Gerry Ford!
Horatius
Unfair? Of course: the piggy banks of President’s own children are not being raided in the bailout bonanza that the ravening pack on Capitol Hill are pushing up toward an even trillion. In good aristocratick fashion, they are simply raiding the piggy banks of the children whose parents are not members or clients of the cliques of privilege and power, but mere producers of actual wealth.
Two news stories today demonstrate the nature and the importance of a critical, anti-federalist approach to the United States Constitution and the officers elected to act under it.
This post will be unusual for the Aristocratick Combination, because one of the stories is of such a nature that images and humor simply seem inappropriate. Perhaps this says more about the personal foibles of Horatius than anything else, but there it is. The reader’s indulgence is requested.
It’s been two weeks since the Inauguration. Horatius is gracious enough to give the new President, and all those who were so ecstatic and rapturous at his taking office, a bit of a break.
No sniping over the extravagant cost of the party (considering the ongoing excoriation of bailout recipients doing similar things). No pointed criticism of the lack of much that could be identified as firm, specific, or indeed substantive in the historic Address. No contrasting of the allegedly millennial advent of peace, love, and brotherhood with the catcalls and chants against the outgoing President, or with the still-battling-Bull-Connor words of Rev. Lowery.
In regard for what was and is truly an important and necessary milestone for the United States, the Aristocratick Combination has observed a moment of silence - which is now at an end. Back to the fray!
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