I am such a failure! MAN!

I found out today that I am a TOTAL AND COMPLETE FAILURE!

I messed up! I'm a dolt, a maroon, a boob! I didn't go to Yale, Harvard, or Princeton! GAH! Why did I NOT go to one of those schools?

If I had done so, I could be milking taxpayers in D.C. with my Ivy League brothers and sisters.

I hear Cornell is acceptable, as is Brown, but I didn't think of either of those schools. Of course I never looked into studying abroad at Oxford either. Man I'm an idiot!

Well, I guess it is three strikes against me. I'm just another of the unwashed masses. Strike 1. I'm from the South. DOH! That's a big one! Strike 2. I work as a barber. GAH! That's bad. I definitely don't know anything about economics. Strike 3. I attended a private Christian university that ranks higher that some of the "better" schools. Man, I'm such a heel.

Wait a minute, should that be four strikes?? I'm a Christian too. A no good, low-life, second-class citizen who believes in fairy tales.

Hey? Has anyone called Bill Gates and told him he's a failure? He didn't even finish college, you know. How about some of the fathers of industry who never went to college? Could they be the reason our economy is failing now? Could it be that they weren't lawyers? After all, lawyers who get elected to office are much smarter and better than the rest of us, ESPECIALLY if they went to the right school. Just ask our current president and our Congress.

I'm sure glad we have such fine, smart, sophisticated people taking care of us, because I don't know what I would do without them.

"Bailout"

Wow! Our new president has really topped himself now.

Let me give this scenario again. Say you own a business, and you have to get a business loan or your business will fail. You have a board of trustees and that board determines your salary. So, when you get the loan, not only do they expect you to pay interest, but they tell you that you can no longer have the same salary you had before. They tell you that you have to make the same amount of money as someone who runs one of your offices instead of the whole company. Would that be right?

So, here we have the government lending out money (that isn't theirs and that they don't have), and the government will charge INTEREST on the money lent, but that isn't enough. They then tell you that you have to cap the salary for your execs.

What? When did the U.S.A. become the U.S.S.R.?

Folks, the people in charge right now ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE COMPANIES FAILING. They see their golden opportunity to push the socialist agenda that they have been dolling out piecemeal for over 60 years.

It has been said by more than one Soviet/Russian leader that Western Capitalism cannot be defeated with conventional wars, but could be routed through the system of education and with careful rhetoric in the public arena. My friends, their plan has come to fruition. Just a few seeds has turned into the ultimate product for them: A president, first lady, and a congress engrossed in socialist idealism.

I would say to be afraid, but I'm beyond fear. I'm ready for change. Our new president may be right that he is an agent of change, but maybe not the change he plans on.