Hope and Change

Well...Not so fast. Maybe something can.

What if millions of people said, "Screw you guys, I'm going home"?

Okay, "millions" is grandiose. Too much to hope for. What if hundreds of thousands did? What if a whole bunch of people became more interested in how their chickens were doing than what-all the Obamanation was up to? What if a sizable percentage of those people who wish they could tune out, actually did so?

Ridiculous, I know. Yeah, it's a really stupid thought. Except, maybe not. I keep coming back to those trillions. It's a wonderful word, trillion. Kinda rolls off the tongue. And when the foreign governments who've been buying this government's debt all these years get the notion that maybe it wasn't such a great investment after all, when the reserve currency of the world stops being the Dollar and becomes the Euro or the Ruble or the Dirham or the Yuan; when the value behind all those newly-minted trillions isn't even the hopes and prayers of foreign investers, but nothing - where's the change gonna come from then?

This is supposed to be a really terrifying thought. And if your whole life is invested in this political and economic system, I suppose it should be. Hey, if the system goes down you're going with it. Too late to worry then. The foolish little men on top will do anything, anything, whatever it takes to keep themselves afloat - to keep themselves in positions where they can feel powerful. And they're going to do it to you. You're the only real resource they have. They will milk you like Bossy the Cow. And do you know what happens to Bossy when the milk dries out and knocking her up doesn't get it running again? Can you say "Cheeseburger"?

To be continued...