Wednesday, November 04, 2015

What would it cost to eliminate gravity?

At the crazy club today the topic at Kadizzles behest was about the political mess we have in this country. An esteemed member of the club suggested that if Kadizzle was so passionate about his beliefs he should donate everything to the candidate of his choice. The question is can you cure stupid with money?  I don't think so.  It does seem you can create stupid with money. Fox News has clearly shown that you can add gas to the fire of stupidity people want to engage in.  Gambling is a classic example. People have been milking the gullible forever with gambling.  You can sit a person down and mathematically show them that given enough time they will go broke if they engage with the lottery or Las Vegas.  You just cannot simply show them math and facts and change them.

Kadizzle had a long conversation with a young girl this summer.  The person working for next to nothing wanted to have a tattoo to honor her father that was killed in an accident.  Kadizzle went through the math with the girl. If she took the money she would waste on the tattoo and invest it at her young age, and leave it alone, she might have a good down payment for college for her young son now three years old. Kadizzle told her that her dead father would be so much happier knowing she cared about her son and had a little bit of finical sense, than seeing her piss the money away on a tattoo.  Kadizzle laid out all the math. There was no logical way on Earth her reasoning made any sense, but you cannot cure stupid.

So here we sit with the most goofy candidates running for the Republican nomination.  None of their math adds up, their trickle down economics, and more tax breaks for the rich just don't work, yet the more ignorant statements they make the better they do in the polls.  They offer quick simple solutions that don't work, but that is what sells.  A popular misconception is that poor lazy welfare cheats are a great burden on society.  The facts and statistics just don't back up that absurd claim.  The bottom 20% of the population in this country only uses up 2% of everything produced.  Most of the so called lazy welfare cheats have jobs, and work long hours. If you got the mileage with your car we get from the poor, you would be well pleased. Those of us who prosper do so because we have slaves in China, India, and all over the world including our country who work for next to nothing, yet we want to cheat them even more.  The real cheats are the 1% that own 90%.  Of course that is no fun to see it that way because we all want to be that 1%.  So we need someone to blame for everything that is wrong. The Germans tried it. They did not have blacks, and Hispanics, so they blamed everything on the Jews.  Today we have Donald Trump and the Republican party trying the same old Nazi crap. No one learned a thing from the past. 

What about the fat guy in the Pizza shop. Imagine you go to the Pizza shop and the owner tells you they are out of pizza.  You say what is the problem?  It's that skinny guy over there in the corner, he ate all the pizza. He did? Yup.  What about that big fat guy in the other corner with all the empty pizza boxes in front of him. Oh, no, he is not the problem.  He ate 90% of the pizza but when the skinny guy came in he ate the last two pieces of pizza, he is the problem.  Republican logic at it's finest.  The head of Walmart getting $8,000 per hour is not the problem, it is that lazy bastard at the door who is 70 and wants minimum wage, that is the problem.  Yup, lets turn on Fox News and make sure we are right about this, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson will assure us it is the immigrant moochers.

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