A burnt offering to the not-god of socialism
About the only thing that’s changed since I wrote this, seven years ago, as that the high-speed rail scheme, after burning through billions of dollars to no effect, went belly-up last year.
All the dark-blue Democrat states are in serious financial trouble. It’s only a matter of time before California and Illinois go into receivership. Do we even know what happens if a state goes bankrupt? I knew a New Jersey town that went bankrupt in the 1930s and was almost a ghost town by the 70s–almost all of every tax dollar they collected went to pay off the debt. They had fifty years of dreary misery before getting out from under that.
“Yeahbut, yeahbut, yeahbut! Of course we can keep spending money we don’t have! We’ll either get it back in taxes or it’ll rain down from the sky!”
Nothing good can come of being governed by lunatics.
I’m tired of seeing all of the idiocy in government today being blamed on the voters. Are voters at least in part responsible? I suppose so. But remember, our ballots do not have a ‘write in’ capacity so the voter is stuck with what the parties provide as candidates. This, by the way, is the reason why Donald Trump won in the primaries in even states like New York and in the general election. He was the closest thing the American voter has gotten to a “write in” candidate in YEARS! Yes, he ran as a Republican, but everybody could tell that that party was anything but happy about it. They just didn’t know what to do about it or how to stop it! Trump was their candidate before they were able to actually put in place a strategy to stop him!
Pat Buchanan once said that the Democrats and Republicans were two wings on the same bird of prey. He was correct! And because average Americans have no “input” into these parties (even at the primary level), we get stuck with the same thing year after year.
Makes me weep:*(
New York City was trying to repair the ice skating rink in Rockefeller Square. After six years of over budget and past deadlines, it was offered to Donald J. Trump. Trump had it finished and up and running in six months, under budget and before deadline – and it was an excellent job. We need businessmen like Mr. Trump in our Executive Branch. I bet he could build a good wall along our southern border if Congress would give him the money 🙂
Trump did a lot of things like that in NYC. As opposed to what we laughingly call the public sector, in the real world you have to do things right or lose money and customers.