- After giving the current financial crisis considerable thought this week an image of Government Cheese remained stuck in my head.
Yes, head cheese, is a sticky subject for an artist and it isn’t a pretty picture to say the least.
- As a young child I have fond memories of Government Cheese and grilled cheese sandwich’s with sweet pickles nested inside that gooey melted gold.
That’s right sweet pickles. Try it, you will like it. As a young adult I remember Reagan in the 1980’s started his great “Cheese” give away program in an attempt to make Reagan-o-nomics work for all of us, it was a trickle down theory that perhaps has led the way to the greatest financial melt down in history. Hold the sweet pickles.
- You see when you have been poor, when you have struggled to make it, you know about the survival programs, Food Commodity Programs; Ronnie Cheese.
Yesterday and really most of this past week I struggled with the idea that I, you, every American would be on the hook for about $10,000 dollars for this proposed Wall Street bail out.
- That’s right, take the first trillion then add what is sure to be the next and that’s a lot-o Government Cheese for the rats who have created this mess.
Then if you want to get even sicker than a Green Bay Packer Fan with a 5 pound block of Ronnie Cheese think about this for a minute. Only about 50 percent of Americans citizens pay taxes, the rest are kids, elderly on Social Security, poor or are large Corporations.
So now you owe at least $20,000, 20 grand maybe more. The question of the day is, “Will this bail out work and do we know where the bottom is”?
- I dunno is the answer from our trusted leaders who as far as I can tell want everybody on both sides of the political aisle on board so there is no one to blame if the scheme fails.
Now keep in mind that this 700 billion is going to be on top of the first trillion they have already obligated. Remember Freddy and Fannie and the Bear. I, like you, begin to think impossible things when I start to think about what several Trillion dollars could do for our country.
Education, Health Care a New National Infrastructure and of course funding for the arts and sciences the likes only imagined by creative minds.
- Perhaps it is time for a new Roosevelt type of program that built the Great Society, the society we became and are now in danger of losing. He also started with Government Cheese Subsidies to feed the people.
- But he also built not only a new modern national infrastructure, he build a national culture with the arts by employing artists. So maybe there is hope for the future if we the people can convince our leaders to perhaps look for another solution to the current crisis. If we are to invest so much as a nation, shouldn’t the end result be sustainable.
- I mean what “IF”! You fill in the blank. “IF NOT”, never fear the Government Cheese will be here.
- As Ronald Reagan perhaps said, “Let them eat CHEESE”
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