State sponsored fraud is still fraud

Last weekend I saved the family $500,000. I came to find out that the corner lot behind us was for sale. Asking price was $500,000. I didn’t buy it. Therefore I saved $500,000. I was so happy about my good fortune, I took Mrs. Lex out to celebrate at an expensive restaurant and blew about $125 of my savings, a pittance really given my $500,000 total savings.

Does that scenario make sense to anyone but public school educated brain-dead Libs?

Try this one. Your wife comes in wearing a brand new outfit, skirt, blouse, jacket, shoes and purse. “Nice, how much,” you ask. “Thanks, $700 but it was on sale so I saved $50,” comes the reply. “No, you didn’t ‘save’ anything. You spent $700,” you mutter. “You’re just so negative about everything. Why can’t you embrace hope-n-change?”

So if none of this makes any sense to people with brains, how come so many people are buying into the Dear Leader’s claim to have saved 150,000 jobs?

Here’s how it works. If you know someone who has received stimulus money, his job was saved. It makes no difference if it was the tenured professor across the street who couldn’t be fired or laid-off anyway who got $700 million to study the migration habits of the three toed, humped back, brown spotted pygmy lizard. His job was saved.

But wait there’s more. When the professor goes to the whole food store to pick up some arugula, he is “spreading around” stimulus money. The gal who rings up the professor’s groceries has just had her job saved. When the gal stops for a beer on her way home, now she’s “spreading around” the stimulus money. The bartender who waits on her has just had his job saved. When the bartender buys a pound of cocaine, the drug dealer who sells him the drugs has just had his job saved. When the drug dealer ships the profit back to Mexico, 1,000s will have their jobs saved. Really anyone in the world who has a job today, should thank the Dear leader.

Is there even an accounting mechanism that allows a company to express money “saved?” Why doesn’t GM just tell stockholders and other investors, “Sure we’re broke. There is no hope turning a profit anytime soon, but it could have been much worse. We actually saved billions of dollars and 1,000s of jobs by not building under sized under powered cars that look as if they were designed by the check out gal out the whole foods store. So we’re really looking pretty good.” GM could have avoided bankruptcy in the first place had they just used the Dear Leader’s easy accounting methods.

I think if you do your books in a manner that shows profit or any other type of gain that really isn’t there, it’s called fraud –hello Enron. CEOs go to jail for that kind of stuff, but the Dear Leader is hailed by the state run media as a hero for the exact same behavior.