Generation Landslide

When I read something like this, I must wonder what it will take to get people to react against the current onslaught of private sector nationalization. Let's look at the words of Stuart Varney:

I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn't much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street's black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back?

My answer: The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell 'em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.

Yes sir. What a difference a generation makes.

As I think back to 30 years ago, a day when Chrysler was bailed out by the federal government, I have to shake my head. Lee Iacocca borrowed money from the government. He used it to rebuild the company from the ground up and because this endeavor was so successful, he repaid the money early. This is the kind of value system that Mr. Iacocca's generation had. Paying back a loan carried far greater honor than "beating the man".

Today, we have a bunch of self-absorbed little brats who think the world owes them something. They think the government should be the nurturer and government is more than willing to do it. And sadly, there are many from my generation who are responsible for this.

Part of it is because many of my cohorts have refused to grow up. The other part is many have learned and honed their parenting skills using Dr. Spock's model of early childhood development, where the objectives are to teach mob rule. In short, many of us wanted to be their kids' friends instead of parents and because of that, we are watching many Generation Xers and Yers blow everything our parents worked so hard to give us.

Well .... we sowed it and now we are reaping it. Mob rule is here.

So unless someone gets serious about turning this country back from its imminent collision with future consequences, this is what we can expect (nothing more, nothing less). Now that the government has its greedy little hands in things it knows nothing about, they are not willing to allow people the leeway to become self-sufficient, again. And why should they? There are many who are more than comfortable with this arrangement, they even wear this as a badge of honor because they like to "beat the man".

Even during the Great Depression when suffering was far greater than today, people were not happy about taking government handouts. In fact, many refused and suffered more abject poverty, as a result of their pride.

Today, we have many on the public dole who feel no remorse for lounging around in bed until noon on a daily basis, and taking whatever government assistance they can hustle up. They use government welfare checks and food stamps to supplement their drug selling money, or other illegal activities which afford them the luxuries that the rest of us have to work for.

But, what can we say, other than these are just the ramblings of a paranoid delusional cynic, who will not give Øbama a chance? What will the naysayers say, when the dollar is replaced with an even more worthless currency for international use, and we witness the collapse of what was once the most economically sound nation in the entire world?