Republicans aren't conservative, republicans are politicians, there's nothing sublime in the world for politicians, just the expansion and cultivation of power. Politics are dull and venal: when there are more homosexuals in the country than there are christians, republicans will be for gay marriage, and democrats will stop fake-going to church. They're all bean counters. That we can work with these people (either party) as some sort of social human growth hormone to speed up the fixing of cultural inadequacies is to me as useful as praying to the gods for rain. If you look to your political representation the way you look to your accountant, than you feel me.
The representation changing over every four to eight years is merely a variation on the theme of how to spend money. That one talks of bootstraps, the other of hungry kids, means nothing. My accountant talks about the Red Sox, and I ignore him. But the changeover, that bloodless changeover between corrupt and corrupt -- the election is the key. It's a new coup every four years in this country; the money is dirty, the facemen unctuous, and still the Union chugs along like a titanic robot with the stars and stripes painted on it's chest. A twenty-foot tall transformer with a tattoo of Ginger Rogers on his iron forearm, and a cigar clenched in his diamond teeth. So consistently does this Robot power on that it's humorous when every four years the anxiety of hiring a new head of robot maintenance sends a certain type of person into a tizzy: "We need a new Robot!".
Last week both bad actors interrupted my football game to promise four years from now things will be better. Way to go out on a limb.
From what I read some of you do see the Government as if it were a white-bearded godhead petting kittens on a cloud above; a living organism that protects you and does wonderful things like build roads. It's mildly ironic that intelligent decent progressive folk, the type who chafe under anything patriarchal lording over them have such daddy worship for The .gov, so long as daddy seems to be as progressive as they are.
Recently I've taken part in some road repair in the very Commonwealth of Limtucky of which I am a citizen. So therefore I build the roads. The town hall does auction the contract to build the road to private corporations, (big and small); does this make the government on this low level responsible for building and maintaining our roads? No, because that's my happily paid tax that pays me to maintain the road. The Town Hall is a money manager. Do half of the Commonwealth of Limtucky not pay to the kitty? Yes. Am I feeling all bootstraps on them, (get a job! Sha-na-na)? -- no, of course not; some of these people have paid there share over the years; some are having a tough time right now. Some have never checked in, and never will -- work odd jobs under the table between hunting and fishing seasons, off the grid if you will, I respect it; they're not paying for the road, nor are they voting. It's not my place to judge these people on what flimsy code I've concocted over the years, they're living how they have chosen; live and let live. But there are other people, people I know who don't work, have never built anything, created anything; have never, and here is where my own resentment comes in: have never scrambled for time; just some extra time to write, to be creative, in a world where no one cares that you think you need to do that kind of thing; these people use the roads. Some even post to Facebook on how corrupt corporations are; this makes them feel as if they see through the fog, makes them feel like they are magic.
What is the most corrupt symbol presently? Oil companies probably. So imagine now we have this other giant robot, with Big Oil painted over his chest atop a dying seagull. A true Decepticon this one. Big Oil meet Big Gov.
Big Gov: Bro, Dude, gas is like 4 bucks a gallon.
Big Oil: Yeah it is.
Big Gov: What are you doing about that?
Big Oil: Besides acquiring the material, transporting the material, shampooing the material, err.. I'm counting obscene profits.
Big Gov: You're crushing the middle class with your obscene profits! Now then, I want a taste: I'm going to need fifty cents of every gallon coming right back here. Haven't you heard? I build roads.
-- Before you get flustered, and start scanning the internet for retort placards, let me state definitively: The Gov should take their 13% off the top of each and every gallon of fuel, and pay for the building of roads with it -- except they're not taking 13%, they're adding 13%. If you took a Godfather offer to, say, Exxon Mobil -- got the greasiest lizards operating over there in a room, and said: Guys, we know you nether-lich's have been surviving over the generations by siphoning the life force of virgins, but we also know y'all are good at making and hiding profits. How about instead of the Government taking it's fitty cent, we take twenty, but you build roads for us.
I'm no Paul Krugman, (thank god), but it would mean more profit for Exxon if they could pave roads cheaper than the State, (by the by, not so hard if you are not completely inept, and/or corrupt, at auctioning construction contracts), raise their own profit by a mere percentage of the government's bad. So Bechtel has to build roads cheaper than they would have because Exxon isn't as whipped as Big Gov; the union hacks are still making their nut, that number is frozen; and we peons pay thirty cents less a gallon, (including the small business owners running diesel in their trucks and equipment, thus making the building of roads a more profitable venture). But it can't happen because Oil is evil and Government loves you -- talk about inscrutable religiosity. Do you know how much money 50 cents a gallon is? Hope and Change. I have to go play some Madden now, but, look, I'm not saying completely privatize, I'm not; just that I want a few greedy accountants in the Gov, to yinny-yin the glorious and most hopeful changers' yang, our saviors who strive to bring we cave people into their golden age. They are all corrupted by power, but some politicos were corrupt at business prior to their .gov dreams. At business. Isn't accounting an issue I hear folk crying about? Hasn't running a deficit been a calling card of politi-talk? It's a shame one side needs to have a giant robot guarding them from themselves. Obama's reelection campaign seems so strange to me, because policy-wise it would seem he should pick up a nice chunk of fiscal conservatives to his side -- he hasn't exactly demo'd Bush policy on war, taxes, and patriot acts, but both sides are so committed to their sacredness, that neither can admit: we don't need magical thoughts, we need venal accountants, and we need to launder them every four years.
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