Follow the Dancing Dollar

Here's another enlightened one (h/t Jami for this linky) who knows what the hell is going on, and that we are on the brink of a stinky pile of steaming financial doo-doo if someone doesn't occupy the White House, and soon, who will start taking corrective action. And what an action recommended by the Mattress Police. Whooo hooo! I'm not giving away the story; you have to go read it, but here's a teaser:

Federal, state and local governments confiscate millions of tons of precious marijuana every year which they burn in vast quantities without even having the decency to put on a Pink Floyd record first.

Naturally, corrective action isn't going to be popular with the vast majority who have been paying more attention to the NFL than to the economy or world affairs. Affairs... it sounds so glamorous, doesn't it? Let's stick with disasters of colossal proportions.

And pity the next President of the United States who actually has to begin tackling all these problems. Trust me, he or she isn't going to be very popular after the first term, unless they do what Bush has done: ignore the problems, create new ones for the sake of distraction, and keep hoping Microsoft, Apple and Sony continue pumping out shit for us to buy, (and hopefully we can afford -- God-willing and a suppressed yuan) perpetuating a fantasy world of electronic delights to lure us deeper into blind oblivion and ignorance of reality.

(I tried listening to the Journey clip while reading that blog post, thinking it would put me in the right frame of mind. Nah, had to shut it off. Too distracting. Made me a tad irritable, in fact.)


Crossposted at Big Brass Blog