THE CURMUDGEON CHRONICLE - #289

THE CURMUDGEON CHRONICLE ©

AN IRREVERENT VIEW


Time Line: October 23, 2010
Date Line: Chicago IL

People do weird things to show frustration and displeasure.

Your car gets a ding so you kick your cat. You don’t get the raise so you yell at your wife and children…. at the moment of frustration anything is fair game. It would be better to have a cup of tea, relax, and save wear and tear on the cat and your home life.

Frustrated Americans are being offered more than a single cup of tea; we have been invited to a Tea Party and what a heck of a party it promises to be. It is catered by the March Hare; furthers concepts devised by the Mad Hatter, and is financed by hidden donor angels who are fronted by the Absconders & Defaulters National Bank.

Tea party attendees get to vote for a fruitcake or nut tart to fill legislative offices, and have a once in a lifetime opportunity to cut their own throats with a ballot. Sounds like a real hoot… reminiscent of WMD and Nigerian yellowcake to be made into bombs. The Tea Party wants your vote. The idea is to show you are pissed because you don’t have a job, pay taxes, can’t buy missiles for the Fourth of July or a cannon for your front yard, let sloe the fact that you are a beneficiary of a health care package that saves you money and covers your kids.

They tell you to vote your frustrations and to forget that once cast the vote cannot be recalled: there are no mulligans in the voting booth.

The Chronicle reminds you that if you put the likes of Ms Angle in the Senate, the seat is hers for the next 6 years. Be assured that she and her counterpart you are asked to elect to Congress have promised to vote to eliminate Social Security and Medicare. I hope that Americans are not that frustrated.

I have torn up my invitation to the Tea Party.

Electing Ms Angle or Mr. Paul won’t end frustration. Frustration can end if we back candidates who will vote for concepts that will restore our economic stability. They include:

… the immediate application of stimulus funds stuck in the States that are to administer them;
… sponsorship of US industrial on-shore growth through infrastructure and railroad programs;
… full college scholarships for the best and brightest children;
… rewarding people for making, buying and distributing American goods and services;
… limiting the number of foreign employees imported at lower wages than prevail for US workers;
… imposing stiff penalties for hiring illegal aliens;
… giving tax incentives for creating jobs and taxing those who service US markets with outsourced foreign labor.

The people who say the stimulus did not work don’t tell you about unspent stimulus grants lying in State bank accounts awaiting a regime change. Politics have changed stimulus funds into stagnation funds.

Your neighbor is not a cat; the rest of us are not your wife and children. Personal pique and frustration has no place in the voting booth. Saying sorry I voted for him did not help the economy after the Bush Presidency any more than it will help if we elect the likes of Ms Angle, Mr. Paul and the fringe thinkers in the Tea Party movement.

Howard Stamer