Checking My "Racism," My "Bitterness" And My "Sore Loser;" Getting My MOODY On

The discussion of debt has - "somehow" - panned 'round to the "negative" outlook tacked onto the AAA rating Moody's extended the United States following the debt ceiling vote yesterday.  Three years ago, we all awoke to the stunning announcement Lehman Brothers was filing for bankruptcy. 

In my day-to-day reality, the failure of trust by Merrill Lynch advisers instantly reduced, by half, the nest-egg held by a close friend whose concerns up to that moment, had been how she would best balance her spending against her life expectancy to not outlive her money.  Here was, her "finance" guy, cautioning her that she was spending too fast and urging restraint upon her. 

At the time of the Lehman Brothers failure, Timothy Geithner was at the helm of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and seemingly oblivious to the swirling duplicity of the Maddoff, AIG, Fannie/Freddie AAA Ratings and scandals.  Nevertheless, Geithner survived the Turbo-Tax bamboozle AND the campaign promise that LOBBYISTS would not rule his White House to be confirmed as Barak Obama's exception to his campaign promise.  Despite his "Day ONE" pivot, his obotic sycophants delighted in the "courage" it took for Obama to "admit" he'd made his rules too tough on even himself.  Gee, maybe had these brats contained their irrational exuberance over electing a ding-bat, they might have covered their funded-by-other-peoples'-money behind with a little resistance.

INBRED is the word that has come to characterize both the financial community and the media in my mind.  Holding onto what they have rather than identifying with what we all can be, the Moody's / Standard & Poore / Fitch disappointment is part of the same picture Mad Money Guru, Jim Cramer fleshed out on the Daily Show.  Scandal Lies in the Truth that these high-flying money-managers "play" us like spinsters sitting on life savings.  They have taken conservative, hard-working Americans on a poorly-orchestrated HIKE intended to recreate our perspective on investing while in fact, misguiding and manipulating us with this disgraceful presumption of EXCEPTIONALISM.  So great is the Greatest Generation that their children's children are incapable of respectful observance of the rights of others.

So the Americans who discerned the rules that make for substance and reliability, played and worked together in a legitimate process known as American Government.  Our vision was one of bringing together the greatest minds, the proven performers, the dedicated, evolved community leaders into a Government of the People, By the very best the People can be For the People who make this Country great, was readily bastardized by the son of a Kenyan Economic STUDENT who caste his seed to the wind and enjoyed a Harvard induction that provided a Legacy for a child who bore his name.  Immigration Documents disclosed by the Arizona Independent in April shed light on the circumstances surrounding the documentation of Obama's birth.  It also points to the insight shared by Americans who have married foreign nationals only to discover that their most "lovable" aspect was their American Citizenship by which their beloved secures a Visa and green card; a variation on the Spinster wooed by a gigolo intent on cashing in her savings theme.

Smile, Ladies:)  This ain't a new story.  It's the classic tale of a Girl done wrong by a glamorous, unavailable cad whose reputation needed "rehabilitating" by her banker mama who knew all the "ins and outs" of the finance game.  Suppose you are at your desk in the escrow department of the Bank of Hawaii and your daughter notifies you that your son-in-law has dumped her and is off to Harvard to fulfill his "Dreams."

Your grandson is growing up in the home of his mother's second husband while she WORKS WITH WOMEN helping them obtain micro finance.  His mother dedicated her efforts to empowering women of the poorest levels with the funds needed to launch cottage industry.  My "racism" - CHECKED AT THE TITLE - is being tugged at here as I suppress my general dislike of men who live off women on welfare while treating them as ho's and caring more about driving flashy cars, preserving their seductibility and sex-appeal and keeping the mothers of their children as a meal ticket, not an equal partner in the rearing of productive, happy children.

Given his background, Barak Obama could well have become the greatest President in the history of his country, had he mastered the material and understood the Economy.  He understands GETTING.  For himself...  He whines to get his way and finds legions of brethren in those children of the greatest generation who shake down their hard-working parents in the identical same way.  How is it he never grasped the "DREAMS FROM HIS MOTHER?"  How did he miss the hard-working women in his family who were bringing it day after day and firmly but gently communicating by their very lives, the way to the bank?  How could he fail to recognize the most important element of stability: depositors and participants interacting in a trustworthy, self-policed security exchange?  I have one word for the president, who again, yesterday, promised to focus on JOBS:  accounting.  Learn to know what you're looking at when you read "the books."  Stop spinning the commie psycho baloney and conduct yourself as a professional gentleman with the credentials and the associates who can - legitimately - follow their surnames with C.P.A. 

Treat women with respect for their insight, their expertise and their achievements...not the ins and outs of schmoozing your horney female boss for her connections and a promotion.  Get into the ins and outs of incentivizing the creation of jobs, do double duty by understanding that even not-so-shovel-ready infrastructure projects will actually do what the stimulus is meant to do: build and restore the foundation upon which we build our businesses.  Everywhere I go this summer, and it is Pennsylvania, after all, roads are closed due to bridge repairs and municipal sewage projects. 

When Moody's can look at all the valuable real estate the Obama Administration has squired onto the Government rolls, at all the State of the Art Buildings that house commerce and education, at all the incredible beauty of improvements to our scene, it no longer looks like debt but a long-term liability BALANCED AND SECURED by an asset.  What part of ending the wars and the destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya does he not relate to bringing the military home to build OUR bridges, guard OUR  borders, impress OUR citizens with the military might that moves mountains and Masters the Universe with a Space Program that is jobs for the Americans with the Right Stuff?

INCENTIVES to create jobs will franchise his efforts worldwide.  Removing the threats to Nationalize and cop the profits of those job-creators will change the narrative of the Right.  It's not what the RICH don't pay, it's what they don't invest, don't spend, don't buy.  COME ON, BARAK!!!  Change your tune and get off your Chinese Water Torture of the drip, drip, drip mantra of fair share and grow up.  The World Economy, as your Father and Step-Father and Frank convinced you, AIN'T FAIR!!!   Your challenge, should you CHOOSE to accept it, is a JOB.  It is not a position as an AGENT of the Government; it is to LOOK AT WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU AND PROCESS IT.  Get it.  Do something WE CAN'T DO.  We ALL can whine, but have been taught to suppress that inclination, shoulder up and GET ON THE JOB.  We've been screaming this at you for so long we're convinced you are not only oblivious but dense as dung.  It's because the message is coming from

1. Typical White Women who are inherently racist because roving gangs of young black males with no jobs and a lascivious look cause them to ask to be escorted to and from work, 
2. Uneducated, blue collar, farmers and craftsmen who could only afford to educate their ungrateful children more inclined to buy your snake-oil out of ennui than substance and
3. Republicans whom you describe as "rich" but who are merely folks who have made the same mistakes you are making but LEARNED from their school of hard knocks instead of blaming the Man. 
4. Independents, Dems and just plain Americans who understand budgets, balance and conservative investing in their communities who, in turn, flourish and remain peaceable while growing INDIVIDUAL AND COMMON WEALTH.

You cannot possibly hear yourself, carping about the corporate jet class all the while corporatist Jeffrey Immelt, who paid no corporate tax for propping you up with the corporate funds at his disposal, FOR WHICH HE IS RESPONSIBLE TO HIS STOCK HOLDERS, is your Jobs Czar!

The Rich about whom you complain ARE NOT LISTENING TO YOU nor do you concern them,  they shrug you off as blithely as you shrugged off Eighteen Million Democrats who felt you weren't bringing enough SUBSTANCE to your resume and your iconic HOPE was a promise, not a plan.  Well, we HOPE you can handle the next dinging on the horizon, Barak.  Like last night's Pirate Pitching, a bunch of sincere, but young guys with great talent but little experience against legitimate Major League Hitters gave up 5 homers to the Cubs before I changed channels.  I "eat" the bitter daily, and salve the sore of "losing" fair and square to members of my own party who in all fairness, squarely stabbed me in the back and put you in office.  I've watched Major Leaguers "eat" the bad pitch they can't take back.  I've also watched lying guys VIBRATE and GLARE at challengers who simply ask questions consistent with what they expect to see but do not.  And I've watched those challengers lose their jobs, suffer harassment and fall into depression.  I've also seen those dispatched by corrupt politicians get even.  I've seen them pull themselves together, eat that "bitter" pill, force down that "Poor Me" impulse and channel all emotion into one overarching goal.  Getting a decent job and recovering their true self-respect and dignity.  Again and Again.  They survive depression, schemers, exploitative lovers and finally, their own bad judgement, and just get serious about their mission to the exclusion of any other phony drain on their resources, and just do it.  Can YOU?

Here's a tip:  It took a lot of easy money to elect you.  All it really should have taken to re-elect you was a job well-done.  Even the original "Dick" Nixon had the respect for the voters to recognize that he needed to be seen as the PERFORMING PROVIDER of Presidential service, not the Campaigner in Chief.   His fundraisers weren't for him, he didn't need the warchest, he had the chest full of medals of accomplished results to impress the voters.  His supporters were asked to contribute to the election of a majority in congress to ease the implementation of his plans, solid "plans," for example, of ending the Vietnam Wa. ...joke.  Just like your hope thing... we who had our HOPES dashed by a cad know this story all too well and don't have time for you.  You let us down once.  You're not family so you're history.  The Mob connections are only one aspect of the coalition that put you in power, but the POWER has a vote, too.  One thing I've discerned about true power: it flows to those it can't damage because they understand power is to be channelled: they don't attempt to seize it.  Your HORN keeps moving around between your eyes and your mouth.  Is it a ringer or a dinger?