Of Job Fairies and Golden Geese

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How often do you you have to hear, read and see something before it strikes a nerve and makes blood shoot out of your eyes?

While shaving this morning, the national radio network news reported that the "Prez" was headed to Milwaukee to talk about his 'commitment' to jobs. And to show how serious he is, he's actually going to engage in conversations with workers, families, and 'local politicians.' I practically swallowed my Ipana.

WHAT??

If you have a medical problem do you (1) poll the general public (2) seek out your local political thug (3) turn on MSNBC (4) ask a teenager? Good luck if you do.

Most of us, overburdened with common sense inclinations, would seek out an expert in medicine, i.e. a doctor. Hopefully we're training our children to do the same, even though this seems, culturally speaking, to be a repugnant form of antiquated exceptionalsim. Shame on us!!

Even our communist Prez gives lip service to the "job problem." What's his solution? A speech? Talk to the jobless? Ooze with local pols? Isn't he leaving something out of the equation? Like the people who provide the jobs, i.e. small businesspeople? What does he think, jobs appear magically at the behest of politicians and are brought to us by job fairies? Or is he as phony and evil as Lucifer, knowing full well what he's doing?

You make the call. We wrestle with these questions constantly. Of recent, I've been coming down on the side of "he damn well knows what he's doing and that he is Cloward and Pivening us into implosive civilizational collapse." I fear we've been too generous for too long regarding the intentions of those in government who seem to repeat the same mistakes, decade after decade after decade. Attributing the whole thing to ignorance ignores what I'm calling the Goldfinger Principle. It goes like this:

When Auric Goldfinger finally captures Bond in Fleming's masterpiece, he says to Bond, "Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action....Oddjob. The pressure room." Give me a second to lose the chills.

There should be a time, the 10th, 50th, 500th, when it dawns on us that these "political mistakes" are intentional, not accidental. That there's another agenda being served. That we've been hosed. And only by realizing the phoniness and abject evil of the presumed intentions of our would-be 'caretakers' can we then proceed to deal with it with moral certitude and practical effectiveness. I still believe this...but...

Even allowing for serpentine hate of indivudual freedom and happiness, there is something about these guys that still seems incredibly, arrogantly and sanctimoniously stupid. It seems they really have NO idea where human progress comes from. They've bought into the Envy Myth that someone who meritoriously discovers 163 uses for peanut butter, does it at the expense of everyone else who doesn't.

This, charitably speaking, blindspot, is nothing new of course. That's why we have fairy tales that warn us of such crass stupidity. There are many: "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The Pied Piper of Hamlin," "The Three Little Pigs," many more. Wisdom lost by a generation. The most appropriate fairy tale for what we're seeing from the standard academius idiotus today would be "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg." We know the story. But does the next generation?

It seems almost too obvious (to us) to say that we owe our incredible standard of living, health, lifestyles, not to politicians, the unemployed, the indolent, bureaucrats, but rather to those among us who have been left somewhat free to take risks, test their own ideas and profit or lose therefrom. Those who go through real-life learning curves, not Alice in Wonderland academia where A's and specially designated groups are rewarded on a curve. Where real history, logic, economics are shunted to the back room with the cobwebs, because they are 'niche interests'.

But Jeez, what fun is it to give solace and admiration to the obvious?