Welcome to Idiocracy

03/05/09

I find myself continuously remembering parts of the movie Idiocracy; if you have not seen this movie I suggest you rent it immediately after this scintillating read.

 

There is a part in the movie where people have become so “dumbed” down in society that they have forgotten how to grow plants and crops. They think that a Gatorade-type product which utilizes electrolytes is what these plants need to grow and cannot understand why they still have a universal drought after crop-dusting with lemon-lime sports product!?

 

It’s an incredibly sad state of things when it feels as though your country has turned into this nightmare of citizenry engulfed by laziness and stupidity – although it may be entertaining at times – it would certainly become frustrating and mind numbingly inane after a couple days of this nonsense.

 

This leads me into what is going on currently in the United States of America. I have to sit back in awe at the sheer gullibility of those on the left and some on the right for that matter, who “just don’t get it.” Hopefully I can explain this Idiocracy via several exhibits of evidence:

 

Exhibit A: Nov. 4, 2008 – Can I please ask at this point in time what people were thinking? When would anyone promote somebody to CEO after only being an employee for 143 days? Did we not think the same way about being elected President after only that amount of time in the Senate? And why would anybody ever vote for or listen to Hollyweird for political views and pointers? These celebrities are so far removed from reality that they believe Hugo Chavez craps unicorns and Iran is the land of gumdrops and muffins! If the likes of Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Laura Linney and countless others are espousing their excitement over a specific candidate because of how progressive he/she is — RUN AWAY! These people have never taken an economics class – to my knowledge – or majored in one. They are actors, plain and simple, and they are part of the entitlement mentality. They sit in their mansions, most of which are energy inefficient, which were built from those evil polluting factories, drinking their mocha lattes, eating ORGANIC nuts and berries and chomping on arugula salad, and get paid millions of dollars to make below par movies – only to tell America how it should think, feel and act. Even the new president thinks that having cocktails and filet mignon at the White House and spending $170 Million on an inauguration while the middle class suffers from unemployment and an overall feeling of surmounting stress and fear from the losses in their 401(K)s or other retirement plans, is acceptable. I’m really just waiting for Obama to say “Let Them Eat Cake,” at least it would be apropos and the 53% who voted for this masked crusader can finally see his true colors.

 

Exhibit B: Elect a candidate that knows a little something about the free market or has taken a business class or is at least business friendly during an economic meltdown. A wonderful example of this ignorance and sheer elitism is referenced in the below video – one I like to entitle: “The Audacity of a Nincompoop.”

President Obama does not understand economics, finance or free market capitalism and most likely does not want to. Maybe I should not even call his ignorance such but rather aloofness since he is haughtily and purposefully ignoring the matter to exacerbate crisis and push his socialist agenda through congress. And with the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid you’re asking for progressive trouble. Gov. Sarah Palin, was the only candidate running who had executive experience – she was head of the following: First and foremost a mother, head of the PTA, a town, an oil and gas commission and a state and she used to own and maintain a business with her husband Todd. It was a fishing business they managed and did well at, but the electorate was “dumbed” down enough to believe she had no experience. Small business owners are in fact the backbone of our economy and the entrepreneurial spirit that strives for the American Dream. Redistributing the Wealth was not what the founding fathers of this country envisioned for us and the very essence of what this country was built upon, the “City on a Hill,” is being threatened. When you transfer payments from one class to another it has more of a direct and adverse affect on economic growth than anything else, including defense spending.

For those who enjoy statistics and regression analysis (the nerd that I am tends to) take a gander.

 

The study was conducted over the course of 50 years to prove the correlation between government size and economic growth; a direct negative correlation ensues.

 

An excerpt from Investors’ Business Daily: Dissing the Market gives some great insight on this incredulous offense of the economic system.

 

“That said, we take issue with his comparison of the stock market to political polls, and worry he’s not taking the market seriously enough. Far from being something that “bobs up and down every day,” the market reflects the opinions of millions of investors and thousands of institutions who are super-sensitive to all that goes on — economically, politically and otherwise.

It’s for good reason the government uses the market as one of its 10 leading economic indicators. The market is not, however, a long-term indicator. It looks at what’s happening right now and what it will mean for the economy six months or so in the future.

If it believes what’s happening now is constructive, it will move higher. If it doesn’t like what it sees . . . well, that’s why we commend recent market action to the president’s attention.

As we noted on a chart that ran on Tuesday’s op-ed page, the Dow industrial average has sold off 30% since Obama was elected. And as we noted in another chart a week earlier, it has tumbled 44% from mid-September, when the financial crisis came to a head and Obama moved ahead of McCain for good in the presidential race.

We’d hardly call that “bobbing up and down.” We’d call it a savage bear market in which investors obviously have yet to see anything constructive on the horizon. Bear markets usually last nine to 12 months; we’re in our 17th with no end in sight.

Whether or not he takes the market’s action seriously, the president or someone on his team might ask why this is so, and why the downdraft has accelerated since he came on the scene.”

 

Exhibit C: Government has always tended to be much larger during a democratic administration than a republican one. I cannot make a generalization, unfortunately, because in recent years some republicans have lost sight of their core principles, which advocate strongly for limited, small government. However, it is important to note, as above in Exhibit B, that Government growth does not usually help the economy of developed nations but rather the opposite. This will now become the largest transfer of the Private Sector to the Public Sector in History.

My question for those who have worked with or for the government is this: has a government entity or official ever done anything effectively or efficiently – do you like standing in line at the DMV? There wouldn’t be thousands of jokes about the wonderfully organized and well run institutions if that were so. So why would growing something that does not produce, but rather services (and services at sub-standard levels) be something to pull the lever for? Eeegads! We have entered the Nanny State!

I like the reality show The Nanny – it almost amusingly becomes analogous to Americans today. We have become Americans who act more like a Veruca Salt “But Daddy, I want it NOW!” than the Tiny Tim: “God Bless us everyone…” I personally wonder if Veruca would have liked the Oompa Loompa several months after getting one… they might be hard to take care of! And I’m hoping that several others feel that way about certain individuals in elected office. Are people happy with being taken care of like children? If they are – may I suggest purchasing shares of Pampers… President Obama did say that the market is just right given the laughable and incorrectly used, profits and earnings ratio statement above. Are people happy that govt. will encroach on their daily lives more and dictate to them what is acceptable and what is not? I’m waiting for the Nanny who actually tells it like it is. A nice hard dose of reality and pure common sense is required in times like these.

I don’t know about you but I live in a world of pragmatism and facts, not romanticism and emotional utopian hope.

So I ask after this “proof in the pudding” where is that 6^th sense, that innate wisdom of those who have been through life, trials, adversity and hardships? Those who have struggled and have overcome? Why are people ok with attempting to recreate America to make it look like Joan Rivers’ face?

If Obama was a cosmetic surgeon and America the customer – I would hope America would ask for a refund – or at least upgrade to a larger cup size.

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