BloggeRhythms 9/7/21010

You really have to hand it to politicians, because for people who seem and act brain-dead 99.9% of the time, they come up with some ingenious stuff if their incumbency's threatened.

Because, right now we have a Congress that should, and likely will, be tossed out on it's collective ear from the House in November, with an unexpectedly large turnover happening in the Senate too. That's because folks are fed up with getting nothing but inane lip service from "leaders" who couldn't get a Girl Scout troop out of a park, much less the woods, with a pack of guide dogs, radar tracking devices, geo-guidance systems hook-ups, Sherpa guides and a self-reading compass.

So, what does the president do when he realizes his majority's over and in twenty-four months or so he'll be sliding a greased rail out of D.C. too? Well, for starters he's going to pump another $50 billion of taxpayer money into an infrastructure rebuild that will likely help no one but a targeted few. (See yesterday's entry for details.) And, then today he added a 100% deduction for business investment in "growth."

Now, whether these two Republican-like plans can help the economy or not remains to be seen, but what's critical to the administration is the timing. Because these two plans will be banged around for a while before being enacted, which should bring their kick-off dates near or right after election day. Consequently, when everything turns around because Congress has been blown out and businesses start to hire again, banks start to lend and job markets open, the administrations plan will run right along with the tide and the guy with the biggest pulpit in the world will take credit for all that will happen positively and continue to seek re-election.

The really good news though, is that I'm not really too bright. So, if I can see what's being done to manipulate the public's mind, so can everyone else. And that means the administration's story won't likely be bought by voters.

The really bad news is that the cost to the taxpayers so far by the administration and Congress is almost $14 trillion dollars. And even though all of us have now learned explicitly to the nth degree to never trust any politician, the tuition's awfully expensive.

That's it for today folks.

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