Debt Can't Buy Popularity

How many of us have seen a thousand of anything?  That's easy.  Go to a small town high school football game and there'll probably be that many butts in the seats.  Go to a college or pro basketball game and you'll get fifteen or twenty times that many.  Tune in a college or pro football game and you can get as many as a hundred thousand.

A million is tougher, but not impossible.  A soft roll bakery will churn out a million buns in a couple of days, and can store twice that many in a good sized freezer.  We can also envision it in terms of big city populations, like the eight million people that live in Manhattan, the hundreds of millions of sand grains on your average beach.

Once we start getting into the billions, though, the metaphors get rapidly scarcer.  There are roundabout six and a half billion people living on Earth.  The aforementioned sand grain example might be extended to every beach on the West Coast, or all the beaches on the continent.  But at this level we start heavily transitioning into numbers as abstraction, with little practical meaning to our own lives.

1.4 TRILLION?  Fuggedaboudit:

I've got another one: If you counted to 1.4 trillion at the rate of one digit per second, it would take you 44,364.2 years.  I tried counting to ten thousand, once.  Needless to say, 1.4 trillion isn't on the to-do list.  Neither is paying off this ocean of red ink.

We know that this avalanche of wastepaper didn't purchase private school educations for every American schoolchild right alongside the First Tykes.  We know it didn't buy Charlie Rangel posh Caribbean vacations for all eternity.  Does anybody know what it DID buy?  And does anybody care?

Yes, we do!:

For voters, the economy outpaces all other issues by a wide margin, according to a new Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll.

As the nation struggles to climb out of a recession, 45% rated the economy as the most important issue in deciding their vote if the congressional election were held today, followed by 21% who said government spending, 20% who chose health care reform and 9% who said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just 4% ranked climate change as the top issue. …

Even as the Obama administration is pushing for climate protection legislation, 62% of those polled agreed that “economic growth should be given priority, even if the environment suffers to some extent.” The remaining 38% believed that “protection of the environment should be given priority, even at the risk of curbing economic growth.”

The results of the quarterly Public Trust Monitor poll indicate a shift of priorities among respondents. When a similar question was last polled in March, respondents had a much narrower tilt, 52%-48%, in favor of economic growth over environmental concerns. Last December, those polled showed a nearly identical split of 51%-49% toward economic concerns.

This is from a population that vastly oversamples Democrats (+10% versus the current +5%).  And it is being directed not at George W. Bush, but straight between Red Barry's beady little eyes.  Why?  Because this basket case economy became his, lock, stock, and red ink barrel the moment he signed Hogzilla into law.  And the people have learned anew that hemorrhaging cash like a spontaneous amputee does blood has not even slowed down the recessionary plunge or the unemployment skyrocket.  All it has accomplished is....burying several generations of Americans under a crushing load of debt that will smother any possibility of economic revival, much less the prosperity that we enjoyed for twenty-five years under the Reagan/supply-side golden age, for years, if not decades, to come.  And that, in turn, does not begin to figure BarryCare and/or crap & tax into the equation.

We, The People, have been getting a brutal education these past several months as to what policies work and what policies do not.  It would be tempting to say the same of the Obamunists, but for the fact that they know EXACTLY what they're doing, and the objective is NOT to buy popularity, but to push America towards more crises and rapid, total collapse - all the better for Godbama and his disciples to then "come to the rescue" of a panicked, desperate populace (Remember the Wall Street collapse a year ago?) willing to give up whatever freedoms and rights necessary for their "economic salvation".

FDR did it three quarters of a century ago and ended up ruling America longer than Hitler did Nazy Germany; had he not been physically feeble and lived twenty or so more years, he might have exceeded Stalin's thirty-year tenure.  And all because he never let a good crisis go to waste, even if he had to manufacture them himself.  Don't tell me B.O. isn't a student of history, when it suits his purposes.

The forecasted annual deficit for FY 2010?  Another $1.4 TRILLION.

On the bright side, mattress sales across the fruited plain are positively BOOMING....