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and squirming, trying to stop her beloved Papa from tickling her. “Lacy, look who I found while I was returning from the security room. I found her hiding, she’s all mine.”
Lacy smiled asking, “Honey, aren’t you going to share her with me?”
“Maybe just this once. Come over and kiss her, she’s so sweet.”
Lacy jointly hugs Bianca with me. She looks into my eyes smiling, there are tears forming in the corners of her eyes. “Honey, why are you crying? We’re safe here and I promise you, we’ll soon be home. We’ll soon be in our own home, I promise you.”
Lacy is happy to have her Jay home.
Chapter 4
John clicks the ‘talk’ button on the general loudspeaker which is used to give shelter wide announcements, “Listen up everyone, the feds are broadcasting every fifteen minutes on every station a special announcement, the President is going to address the nation tonight at 9:00 PM EST. He’s supposedly now ready to address the current financial situation and announce his plans to turn the situation around. Unless anyone has an objection, I plan to pipe his broadcast through the general speakers so everyone can hear what he has to say. I suggest we put the kids in the playroom where there are no speakers.”
Everyone in the shelter shares the same buzz for the rest of the day, all anyone wants to chat about is the upcoming speech. Tony stopped by to see Lacy and I, “Jay, you picked the perfect time to return to us. What do you think he’s going to say?”
Looking at Tony, I smile, “He’ll blame his predecessor like he always does, then he’ll spend half an hour telling us everything will soon be fine because he’s in the White House. It’s too late for him to do anything. When Greece defaulted and left the EU, they started the ball rolling that killed the dream of a united Europe. When the Euro failed, money flowed into dollars. Our fearless leader and Congress spent like drunk sailors on their first liberty in six months. Once the world realized America’s debt was also over 100% of our GNP and we’d never be able to pay off our national debt, the dollar collapsed. He could have saved us by doing any number of things. Calling China’s bluff when they demanded repayment wasn’t one of the smartest things to do.”
“Jay, are you suggesting we should have given them Hawaii?”
“Nope, I didn’t say that. I think Congress should have cut the federal budget and stopped borrowing. I wouldn’t have raised the debt level, I would have lowered it. Hell, if we had frozen each agency’s budget, ceased yearly inflation increases, we could have brought the debt under control and balanced the budget. If Congress would have actually figured out a real budget or if Congress would have looked into how each agency was spending their money, their budgets could have been cut without harm and we’d have gotten the financial mess under control. What can he do now? We have to start all over. The too large to fail failed because they were too large. The only way back is to begin anew.”
Fred responds, “We’ve already fallen over the cliff. What can he do? Can he make the rest of the world accept our dollars at face value? Can he put everyone back to work? Can he stop the lawlessness? Can he put us back in our homes? Tell me anything he can do which will have a meaningful effect on the current financial meltdown? In my opinion, he won’t do a damn thing. I bet he’s going to announce another tax increase and more wealth redistribution. He doesn’t know how to do anything else. He thinks if he spreads money around, everyone will have more to spend, hence when people spend it, the economy will reboot. He can’t come to grips with the philosophy that lower taxes and fewer regulations boost investments. The only thing he’s going to do is make the meltdown last longer. The ‘community organizer’ has never run anything, he’s stuck trying to make old
Lacy smiled asking, “Honey, aren’t you going to share her with me?”
“Maybe just this once. Come over and kiss her, she’s so sweet.”
Lacy jointly hugs Bianca with me. She looks into my eyes smiling, there are tears forming in the corners of her eyes. “Honey, why are you crying? We’re safe here and I promise you, we’ll soon be home. We’ll soon be in our own home, I promise you.”
Lacy is happy to have her Jay home.
Chapter 4
John clicks the ‘talk’ button on the general loudspeaker which is used to give shelter wide announcements, “Listen up everyone, the feds are broadcasting every fifteen minutes on every station a special announcement, the President is going to address the nation tonight at 9:00 PM EST. He’s supposedly now ready to address the current financial situation and announce his plans to turn the situation around. Unless anyone has an objection, I plan to pipe his broadcast through the general speakers so everyone can hear what he has to say. I suggest we put the kids in the playroom where there are no speakers.”
Everyone in the shelter shares the same buzz for the rest of the day, all anyone wants to chat about is the upcoming speech. Tony stopped by to see Lacy and I, “Jay, you picked the perfect time to return to us. What do you think he’s going to say?”
Looking at Tony, I smile, “He’ll blame his predecessor like he always does, then he’ll spend half an hour telling us everything will soon be fine because he’s in the White House. It’s too late for him to do anything. When Greece defaulted and left the EU, they started the ball rolling that killed the dream of a united Europe. When the Euro failed, money flowed into dollars. Our fearless leader and Congress spent like drunk sailors on their first liberty in six months. Once the world realized America’s debt was also over 100% of our GNP and we’d never be able to pay off our national debt, the dollar collapsed. He could have saved us by doing any number of things. Calling China’s bluff when they demanded repayment wasn’t one of the smartest things to do.”
“Jay, are you suggesting we should have given them Hawaii?”
“Nope, I didn’t say that. I think Congress should have cut the federal budget and stopped borrowing. I wouldn’t have raised the debt level, I would have lowered it. Hell, if we had frozen each agency’s budget, ceased yearly inflation increases, we could have brought the debt under control and balanced the budget. If Congress would have actually figured out a real budget or if Congress would have looked into how each agency was spending their money, their budgets could have been cut without harm and we’d have gotten the financial mess under control. What can he do now? We have to start all over. The too large to fail failed because they were too large. The only way back is to begin anew.”
Fred responds, “We’ve already fallen over the cliff. What can he do? Can he make the rest of the world accept our dollars at face value? Can he put everyone back to work? Can he stop the lawlessness? Can he put us back in our homes? Tell me anything he can do which will have a meaningful effect on the current financial meltdown? In my opinion, he won’t do a damn thing. I bet he’s going to announce another tax increase and more wealth redistribution. He doesn’t know how to do anything else. He thinks if he spreads money around, everyone will have more to spend, hence when people spend it, the economy will reboot. He can’t come to grips with the philosophy that lower taxes and fewer regulations boost investments. The only thing he’s going to do is make the meltdown last longer. The ‘community organizer’ has never run anything, he’s stuck trying to make old
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