Wednesday, October 17, 2012

17 October 2012 Hey, Trotsky! Watch me pull a revolution out of my hat!



          Oh, Lenin, that trick never works.
          95 years ago, on a calendar most of the western world had put behind them, the Romanov Empire breathed its last and the Soviet Union crawled up from the primordial compost that was once Czarist Russia.  The “Russian Revolution moved Russia from a non-industrialized nation to a heavily industrialized nation able to contest with the United States for the first lunar landing.  After being nearly gutted by Nazi Germany during WWII, the USSR became a world power, engaging in a decades-long “Cold War” with the U.S. and its NATO allies; fighting a series of proxy wars and using client nations to test the military hardware both sides were developing and selling.  
          Until the destruction of the USSR, there was an annual celebration in Red Square involving a review of armed forces by the political leaders who controlled the product of the peoples’ labor.  New weaponry, intended to use against NATO forces, was often displayed without further comment at such parades. 
          Yesterday’s Presidential debate took on the character of two Kommisar’s posturing and arguing before the people who are intended to rubber stamp the eventual successor.  I found Romney’s incessant bleating that his career in business makes him better able to restore the current economic recession to a functioning system once more becoming rapidly annoying and tiring.  Further, I believe it to be patently untrue.  Just as the Soviets were unable to build a functional, non-corrupted, workers’ paradise, Romney would be unable to craft laissez-faire economy that would not rapidly begin to further deplete the remaining resources of the former middle class.  That outcome is inherent in the laissez-faire concept. 
          The modern history of  American politicians with business backgrounds is thoroughly discouraging and markedly frightening.  The men most steeped in business , Hoover, Harding, Carter, and G.W. Bush, have all but destroyed the national economy and thrown the world’s economy into disarray despite doing well in the private sector. 
         



          Hey,Teavangelists, help me pull 12 million jobs out of my hat
          Oh, Romney, that trick never works!

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