More money than brains

I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop crying as my husband laughs about the obscene, dishonest waste of taxpayers’ monies to benefit the elites in Washington. And Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats’ incumbent Italian Fascist leads the charge. Instead of reining in spending, spoiled politicians radically change cafeteria offerings and continue to talk about spurring economic growth with more spending measures. I can’t, I can’t brook such profligacy and maintain peace of mind.

More money than brains leads to trouble. Delphi, a supplier of parts to General Motors with money to burn, arrived at the point of unsustainability of salaries to employees of $28.00 a hour. Finally, an executive decided that paychecks must be reduced to a reasonable $9.00 an hour. That’s progress. Money must be abundant because two small wedges of brie and cheddar cheese, 6 grapes, 2 saltines and 1 strawberry for a side dish are priced at $4.95 in the Congressional cafeteria (now reconstituting the menus to gourmet, low-fat offerings). That’s not progress.

Insanity hindering progress is pervasive on a global scale. The evil Taliban has innovated with attacks at restaurants popular with Westerners. The huge computer chip company Intel, reports a 51% surge in its net but its shares of stock fall 14%. How can these two irrationalities be explained? The savings rate for Americans has dipped below zero. This sub zero rate symbolically represents a freeze on common sense. Why can’t a sense of personal responsibility force people to prepare for the future and/or rainy days? Then to prove that the words of Dante in his Divine Comedy for those who enter Hell , "Abandon all hope, you who enter," apply to our hedonistic, self-absorbed Western culture - I came across a reference to "organic essentialism," the new concept for modernist biological sculptors. Practitioners of this art say that the "less is more principle" is "defined by relationships to nature and restraint and lack of ornamentation." Does this mouthful of non sense from spoiled elitists reflect progress?

More money than brains accounts for waste and stagnation. But then I read about two poor Chinese parents who have less money than is necessary to solve the problem of a violent schizophrenic son, so they turn to using their brains to cage him for his own protection and their safety. Unfortunately, waste is again the outcome, because not until the son escapes and kills his mother (having already previously killed an elderly woman) does the government intervene with money to ‘put the offender away’ in an institution. Is this progress? No, not until enough money is available in struggling economies to prevent such waste. I guess I should dry my tears and be cheerful that America has money to burn - except on unpronounceable, expensive menu selections including couscous and arugula.