I did some research a few minutes ago, to look up an old business adage “He who talks first, loses,” because I’ve seen the point proven countless numbers of times. My search, however, turned up even a better quote I’d never heard before, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt," attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
I mention this because, when it comes to digging holes for one’s self verbally, I doubt there’s anyone on earth better at that than the incumbent. At present, he’s again reminding me of Jimmy Taylor, great fullback of the Green Bay Packers, who proudly claimed he’d spent four years at LSU unscathed by education, which seems to be exactly the same as how the incumbent handles his current job.
So, today we have a guy who’s supposed to be presidential who seems to be planning a likely senseless attack against Syria, simply because of threats he made in a speech. At the moment, though, he can’t seem to find anyone else who believes it’s a good idea, especially because no one really knows who the good or bad guys are, and the majority of opinion both here and abroad right now is, it’s a very, very bad plan, strategically and otherwise.
But, the most incredible thing to me is that the only reason for still going ahead with a plan no other nation really favors, is to prove that words that should never have been said are valid. And although its also been said that you can’t teach old dogs new tricks, apparently there are some who never, ever, learn anything at all.
Along the same lines, there’s that other disaster of the era, the incumbent's new health care tax, which has now infuriated one of his longest and strongest allies, major union leaders.
Apparently, according to foxnews.com/politics three of them “sent a scathing letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California," which said, “Time is running out. Congress wrote this law. We voted for you. We have a problem -- you need to fix it."
A key complaint is that “defining part-time work as less than 30 hours encourages employers to cut workers to 29 1/2 hours to avoid the requirement to provide health insurance” which is obviously a monstrously huge problem.
However, as exists with the rest of the new tax, it seems to me that there’s no easy fix to the problem because no matter how full time labor’s defined, employers are going to move as many employees as they can to less than full-time work thereby avoiding financial expense and liability.
Consequently, this issue can now be added to a whole array of others that make absolutely no economic sense, which is exactly what should be expected from legislation designed by clueless bureaucrats.
And in the end, I don’t think it really matters how much revising the new tax gets whereas no group of politicians and union heads is ever going to outthink or outwork those who’ve built the businesses that make the nation run financially.
And that’s because it takes some brains and ability to be successful economically which are qualities that parasites don’t have. Which is why instead of doing something on the productive side, they whine, moan, wheedle, threaten and cry, the only strategies these leeches have ever been capable of.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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