Does Joe Biden have his head in 'The Clouds'?
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.” —Joe Biden, speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus, Feb. 6, 2009
The verdict is in. America has had enough of the president and his henchmen doing, “everything right with absolute certainty.” And so I have a simple question for the Obama administration: How is it possible that you are (honestly) trying to sell America down the same European road of more big government debt (oxymoronic socialist economics) at a time when Europe’s sovereign debt crisis threatens to bring down banks, governments and even the European Union itself?
When Americans are asked to believe in a president who acts more like Neville Chamberlain with every passing day and emulate the failed policies of European economic mythology, you know we are at a critical crossroad in history. Unless forced to, who would actually agree to drink poison? The systematically conditioned populace had best wake up. The hour is late and the Obama administration is concocting another witches’ brew for us all to drink this election year.
Ask people in Greece, Spain or Italy if they need more government debt piling up. Ask them if they need higher interest rates, higher taxes and more inflation. The Obama administration and the Kool-Aid drinkers in Brussels have been in la-la land for the last three years, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Europe has been certifiably insane since the crash of ’08 and it is only now waking up out of the denial stage and confronting the grim reality of a sovereign debt bomb ready to explode into the streets as they enter the final stage of a failed empire in decline.
Modern socialist mythology can best be understood by the ancient Greek play by Arisophanes called “The Clouds.” The story illustrates the human propensity to defy reality by deception in an attempt to avoid consequences.
The main character, Strepsiades (a jerk) can’t sleep at night because of his huge debt. So he enrolls in a school (think tank) with Socrates to learn how to, “skillfully twist the truth and tell outright lies” so as to defeat his creditors in court.
At one point, Strepsiades’ brilliant solution to avoid paying his debt is to purchase the services of a witch to pull down the moon and trap it in a container. (Since interest is calculated by the moon or month… Strepsiades would no longer have to make monthly payments with no moon!)
Wow, that’s a great solution! Hey Joe Biden, are you listening?
Strepsiades fails at the school and Socrates sends him away after he realizes that the man is a hopeless jerk. Strepsiades returns to Socrates and wants him to teach his son Pheidippides how to “talk his way out of lawsuits.” The son enrolls in the school and eventually becomes skilled enough to talk his way out of paying the creditors. He even resorts to physically beating one of the creditors!
A chorus of gods pay Strepsiades a visit and tell him that failure to pay his debt will only bring misfortune. Strepsiades eventually is beaten up by his son (because he deserved it) and the father is unable to best his son’s newfound skills in sophistry.
“The Clouds” illustrates why the younger “Occupy” generation of Europeans (Pheidippides) raised on unlimited social utopianism feel entitled to blame the banks and riot as well as “beat up” the old guard politicians (Strepsiades) who have sold them down a river of debt.
Short of pulling down the moon to avoid payments, there is nothing stopping the flight of money from the EU and its eventual collapse into the ash heap of history. America is on the same path of destruction that we are witnessing in Europe. And like a Greek tragedy, a vote for more of the same insanity this fall will seal America’s fate.
America cannot afford four more years of the Obamas on vacation while Joe Biden, the lunatic with his head in the clouds, hires a witch to pull down the moon.
Seymour is a resident of Kalispell.