It's not easy being a critic of the current regime.  Now some of you might think that it's easy, like being a mosquito at a Nudist Camp-- where to begin?  But when you're dealing with abject worshipers, that changes the equation.

I've tried to express my concern for potential economic disaster.  This is met by LOL's and pixels who laugh til the water flows from their eyes.  "He's a businessman, you Libtard!  He's surrounded by businessmen.  They're not going to ruin the economy!"  (Let's forget for the moment his six bankruptcies, and losing $915 million in one year running a casino, which is usually a license to print money.)   His cyber boosters have short memories.  Who was it who ruined the economy nine years ago?  Businessmen.  Like the guys at Goldman Sachs, several of whom are now in the Administration. 

And who was President at the time it all went south?  The only other guy with an MBA.  W.'s policies contributed to the collapse, not merely by ignoring what was happening, but in his curious idea that he could cut taxes (for the rich), raise spending (on the military), and still balance the budget.  (It's something like thinking you can eat all the fudge you want and still lose weight.)   He got that brilliant idea, the Laffer Curve Flimflam,  from the Reagan Administration, but the result then was record deficits (for that time).

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice ... "we can't get fooled again" (W.'s misquote), but fool me three times, well, we're just too stupid to exist.  W. gave us record deficits (for that time).  And now just watch the latest MBA Chief Executive do exactly what's failed twice before.

The new additions to the deficit will be unmanageable.  It already was.  And there's simply not enough spending on the poor, or even the middle class for that matter, to eliminate to cover it.  It looks like they'll have to get real and raise taxes for a change-- but that's #1 on the GOP list of Things Never to Do.  They're too unrealistic and immature to pay our bills like adults.

Add to our deficits the chance that our MBA President will start a trade war with China.  That would ruin the world economy.  Or that the GOP might finally allow us to default on our debt, which they almost did several times during Obama's terms of office.  That would cause a Depression.  Much of our debt is owned by foreign countries, like China, who would then dump that debt on the market, rendering us insolvent and losing them a bundle.

Looks like my economic worries deserve better than LOL's and laughing pixels.  For now, the crazy people are saying, "What-- Me Worry?"m, but maybe we should all be stockpiling canned goods.  I know my larder has gotten fuller.

And hey, a bigger and better economic collapse isn't the biggest thing we need to worry about.  I wish I could dismiss worries about World War III and nuclear Armageddon, but I can't.  I really can't.  So have a nice day, everyone, we're in great little hands, aren't we?

Sincerely,

Stephen Van Eck

Rushville, PA