"...the most bizarre, morbidly ironic New Years Eve 'Going Out of Business' sale ever!

Get ready for the Mother of All 'Going Out of Business' Sales this December!!

This is going to be huge. Unprecedented. Historic. Great for certain niche businesses---funeral homes for instance!

With the sunset of the law protecting folks from losing 55% of their inheritance to 'Estate Taxes', untold thousands of folks will be jamming the turnstiles to die before January 1, 2011.

Talk about chaos, hysteria. This could well be history's most epic mass suicide! Not surprisingly, the 'experts' in the media and government will BE surprised. There will be lines, waiting lists, people literally dying to die in the streets!

What?

Yesterday, while musing over something else equally ridiculous, I got to thinking about how godawful expensive our 'protectors' plan to make dying in 2011.

Correct me if wrong, but I recall the estate tax ('death tax' to greedy conservatives and other social anomalies) will go from 0% December 31, 2010, to an astounding, 'only Nancy Pelosi could think this was sane', 55% on Januray1, 2011.

Now, for those of us who've had a whiff of this type of confiscatorial robbery coming, we're fortunate enough (maybe) to have removed ourselves from owning stuff that the state knows about. How much do you keep in YOUR checking account? "Own" your own home?

But, what about the majority of that fleeced minority: productive Americans? The unaware will be toasting in the New Year having seen 55% of their post-mortem net worth go poof into the coffers of Unions, third world countries, and the funding of air fleets fo US politicians looking to limit YOUR carbon footprint.

Contemplating the 'unforseen' consequences of this, I came onto the realization that December would be a great month to be in the funeral, cemetery and cremation business. Those folks will be the 'unexpected' beneficiaries. Occurs to me there will doubtlessly be a federal 'windfall tax' on these folks for their 'unearned' good fortunes, even as the December business is being pulled from the first quarter of 2011.

To foresee this coming, all I had to do was put myself in the position of someone with means, who has their own priorities for the use of their after-death resources: their own families, friends, charities, favorite causes, etc. If I were anyone remotely within the crack of death's door, I'd make DAMNED SURE I croaked while I could have a say in the disposition of things that I've earned. And, I'd make DAMNED SURE, as best as I could, that none of that treasure fell into the hands of those who would redistribute it to the likes of ACORN, SEIU, 3rd World hooligans, and other ne'er- do-wells worldwide who need, less than anything, more props to keep them dependent.

I would stop taking my medicine, disconnect from any life extention machinery, and, if necessary, have it arranged for me to fall down 18 flights of stairs. And I'm a coward!

So get ready. It's going to be the most bizarre, morbidly ironic New Years Eve 'Going Out of Business' sale ever!

(C) Jack Greene, Oct. 1, 2010