When you're broke spend more money

OK you’re broke. You don’t have a dime except what you can borrow from your neighbor who doesn’t like you very much and rob out of your kids' college funds. The neighbor props you up because you spend a good deal of your income at his weekly garage sale. Besides, in the long run, the neighbor thinks you or your kids are good for or the borrowed cash.  The kids don't mind because they don't know you're robbing "their" funds and that they are expected to pay the neighbor back if you can't.


So what do you do? Well you go out and buy three expensive computers and you justify the buy by telling yourself they are for your kids’ education. Yes, it’s for the children. Besides the computer store own is a friend that gets you your drinks for free down at the lodge.

Then you offer to pay off your drinking buddy’s home mortgage. After all, he was “tricked” into buying a house he knew he couldn’t afford by some unscrupulous banker and his wife who really liked the curtains. Besides, your buddy gets out the vote for you every year down at the lodge so you can continue as the lodge Grand Pooba. Paying off his mortgage is the least that you can do.

The neighbor who is loaning you money thinks you are nuts and your family is shouting at you to STOP SPENDIING MONEY! But you, with a wealth of economic knowledge gained during your years organizing a mid-night basketball program at the Y, tell them to buzz off. You know what you’re doing.

Sound absurd? Sure it does until the “you” in this story is replaced with our own Community Organizer in Chief, P-BO; the money loaning “neighbor” is replaced with China; the kids are replaced with our kids; the computer store owner is replaced with 50 BILLION to the teacher’s union; and the drinking buddy’s home mortgage is replaced with another 6 BILLION to Freddie and Fanny and the dope himself considering paying off EVERYONE whose mortgage is under water.

You just could not make this stuff up fast enough, if it were not actually happening.



Then there’s this, Stephen Hawking is advising that if we don’t colonize outer space the human race faces extinction. In other news, the AAA and the FAA have advised the government to perfect Star Tek type transporter technology or people will face long drives and flights. Colonize outer space! Why didn’t I think of that? Oh, because I’m not a brilliant physicist trapped in theory. I live in the real world. And I know that we cannot even set up a workable biosphere on our own planet so how the hell would we expect to set one up in outer space?