“ You can’t lead from behind. Leading is not a political strategy. It’s a moral strategy.” Chris Christie
Here’s Big Guy, leading his entourage (in the BBB) on our Win The Future (WTF) tour: 2 Big Black Buses, 15 police cars, 1 Ambulance and 22 SUV’s/vans.
Unfortunately, someone outed the outsourcing of Big Guy’s Big Black Bus (Fox, I think): it was built and outfitted in Canada. That doesn’t mean that it’s not American. North American anyway, and we’re all citizens of the world.
Butt let’s stay on non-campaign message here:
Adorable Dogs, and kids
and ice cream
Oh yes, and we need to get politicians to stop putting their selfish political interests ahead of the good of the country.
While Big Guy and his team are working round the clock trying to figure out how to make this economy sound robust. His Ag Secretary, Tommy Vilsack, tried to do his part by explaining how food stamps are one of the best jobs stimulators there ever was.
Here’s the first thing you learn in political economics school about putting country ahead of politics: if your administration’s policies don’t hand you a vibrant economy that you can boast about, then boast about the vibrant welfare programs you’re providing in response to your non-vibrant economic policies.
Credit where credit is due for this strategy: Former historic House Leader, Nancy Pelosi, first introduced us to the the welfare dollar multiplier. Soon thereafter, every supportive MSM commentator discovered this new economic principle on their own, and have been spreading its wisdom with religious fervor ever since.
The beauty of this theory is that you don’t need even a passing grasp of basic arithmetic to understand it’s appeal, and it makes perfect sense to collectivists progressives.
I sure don’t want to rain on Big Guy’s rural jobs parade, butt I’m just wondering if anyone in his camp realizes that this theory flies in the face of our zero-sum game approach to all things economic. Not that logical consistency is a pillar of progressive politics, butt still…it’s awkward.
Let’s evaluate: in the zero sum consumption game, if one person makes a lot of money, someone else necessarily makes less. If one person consumes more energy, that leaves less energy for someone else.
Butt when you switch to government largesse, the zero sum metric reverses itself. Now, if someone gets a little bit of your money, it’s automatically multiplied by the number of hands it passes through. This is where the math gets a lot more complicated. I think I might just be too dumb to be a Progressive.
Here’s how I think it works: if you earn a dollar and spend it, it’s only worth $1. If you earn a dollar and Big Guy takes 50 cents of it and gives it to someone else, then the impact is $2. It’s called transmogrification. Not to be confused with transubstantiation. He’s not making that claim yet, although this whole scheme does remind me of the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
If, like me, you’re still having trouble grasping the basics of Obamanomics, try this. It’s a little exercise Pluff-Daddy came up with for Big Guy so he could explain it on his bus tour:
You will be Obama’s American economy. Put $2.00 in your “RIGHT” pocket. That’s your money. You earned it. Next take one of the dollars and transfer it to your “LEFT” pocket. That’s Big Guy’s stash. And SHAZAM! The American economy just doubled its money! Simple, isn’t it?
So cheer up: we’re in good hands! I’ll even give you a little scoop about Big Guy’s jobs program that I’m not supposed to tell anyone about yet: he’ll be announcing after our Vineyard family vacation a new training program for former auto workers in how to replace broken windows.
And if you think broken windows create jobs…
Buh bye, Heartland. Hello Martha’s Vineyard!
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