Just Win, Baby!!

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Throughout life I've been at best a late bloomer and quite naive. But even a blind squirrel finds an occasional acorn.

My 'acorn' has to do with knowing exactly what a boondoggle the "Cash for Clunkers" program was going to be, along with the Feds and Unions running the once proudest ship in US auto history, GM. And I told everyone what was going to happen, probably including those who also had it figured out and may have been a little insulted by my lack of respect for their own knowledge from experience. My 'prescience', like all prescience I'm familiar with, came from being an expert in the field in question. In younger days, I became an expert in the sales, merchandising and marketing of new automobiles and trucks. It's one of the few things I ever did at which I became excellent. Downright famous within the industry. So, when "Cash for Clunkers" came along, I knew with bizarre clarity what was going to happen.

The purpose of this is not to belabor the history, nor to mull ad nauseam over the mechanics of what happens when the government tries to screw with markets and other people's money. No, today I merely want to rant a bit about the obscenity of the morality behind this type of folly.

Since I've referenced 'morality,' allow me to share what definition I'm using. I'm using the term in the context of what is benign, benevolent or inimical to the lives, liberty, property and happiness of ourselves, families, and chosen communities (chosen by us individually---not designated for us by some tinhorn crapass local or federal tyrant).

Thanks to the five alarm sirens going off over the countryside, many of us have awakened to the fact our world is burning down. Civilization is not a guaranteed thing, and has certain foundational requisites that must be established, maintained and nurtured to flourish. Otherwise we repeat the experience of the arrogances of past great peoples.

One of the the most irritatingly obvious, when things are going awry, fundamentals is common sense. We are all well aware we are living in a looking glass world where "yes" is "no", "freedom" is slavery, indolence is exalted while productivity is trashed as materialistic, being enlightened is to profess to know nothing. The list of idiocies that prevail today can be very discouraging, especially if we try to address them in solitude.

One thing is for sure---we also know ideas have consequences. The morality and practices in our culture today will, do, and have had, incalculable consequences. And it's infuriatingly simple: reward incompetence, and incompetence becomes the coin of the realm. Punish productivity, and the spigot of human genius will reduce slowly to a trickle. We will eventually be fighting over the spiritual and material bones of the most wondrous country ever to grace the surface of the earth. This is not prognostication. It's happening now.

Thank Jesus for the brazen obscenity of Obama, Pelosi and Reid, obsequious news media, the rot of academia.. We knew this cancer existed elsewhere in the world, but were dozing with the snooze alarm when it came to our own backyard. We have been sitting in the proverbial pan of water on the stove, like frogs,while the gradualists slowly boiled us to death. I guess it's only common sense to suppose that most wake-up calls are uncomfortable as hell when they happen. So here we are.

Now here's the cheery part. We're going to win!! I'm not making this up. As sure as vampires die with the coming of the sun at dawn, we will slay this beast. Never permanently. Someday in the future another generation will find that apathy and lack of vigilance have allowed the cancer to return from remission.

Yes, to repeat, we are going to win. It's astoundingly obvious why. Scroll down and read the prior article and smile....