Guns and Butter

The main thing I don't understand about the explanation of the current economic meltdown is why the fundamentals of economics are ignored. There is a maniacal aberration, a heresy of thought, in the government of the Republicans; you do not spend more than you earn for more than a limited, planned time. In addition, if you are the guardians of the religion of Capitalism, how on earth to you justify the bailout of private companies with public money; if you have awarded your executives with millions of dollars with shady books, you should be hung by your stockholders. One thing I most remember is my study of economics--and because I remember the years of Johnson and Nixon--is that you can not have guns AND butter. Call me old fashioned, but you do not wage two wars and give tax rebates; it would be better to bring back gladiator battles in our near-empty stadiums and pass out some cake on the way out. Of course, you do it because you are in it for only the short term; your sycophants, who have raided the treasury, will protect you when you retire to your ranch, or yacht, or bunker.

Guns and butter never works. Buns and butter are a lot better and Happy Hour will be better than ever. We are already planning out outfits for the White Party at Vizcaya in late November as the escorts of The Queen of South Beach, Henrietta; sadly, we have had to forego the limo rental at $1,000. It's like the beginning of the end. There shouldn't be a revolt; there should be a revolution.