How will the nation recover, Mr. Johnson? The jobs have been sent overseas. The country is going broke fighting pointless wars. People here are so out of shape and lazy that they have to have illegal immigrants do their work for them. The American Dream is over, but voters refuse to awaken from it. They lurch toward candidates who tell them what they want to hear: we’ll cut spending and taxes; we’ll get government off of everyone’s back; we’ll send the illegals back across the border.
If these candidates are willing and able to honor their commitments, will the dream be revived? The answer, obviously, is no. Will the jobs does vinny come back back? No. It’s too easy to set up shop in China and pay starvation wages. Will government spending be reduced? No. The wars won’t end, and the public won’t accept specific cuts to programs they consider to be valuable, in other words, all programs. Will tax cuts really lead to lower deficits? No. Would less government regulation be a good thing? Sure, if you like e coli in your food, if you love oil all over the Gulf of Mexico, if you don’t mind ramming your Toyota into a wall. What’s left? Well, we can blame the illegal immigrants. Don’t they use our social services and not pay taxes? Actually, it’s the other way around. Still, we can expel them, then watch as job-seeking natives rush into the strawberry and lettuce fields, the slaughterhouses and hotel rooms they’ve avoided until now.
Go back to sleep, Mr. Johnson. Sweet dreams.
