Don't Go In

I was getting flack from the ROMEOs who sometimes come into Hanaan's Diner - known to be the hang-out of the TYBALTs, my own group of plug-uglies. Anyway, so one guy brings up Russia's complaint about opium copming from NATO controlled Afghanistan, saying what else can we do?

So I say, we could have not gone into Afghanistan  to hold onto it for 8 years plus in the first place.

So he sez, yeah, but now we're there? Be constructive? We're there now, and we gotta make the best of it. So what do we do, then?

And I sez, you do not go in in the first place, that's what ya do.

It's like Iraq, you don't go in all by yourself based on lies you told yourself.

And bail-outs...you don't do them. You either nationalize the stupid banks and straighten them out and set them free again, or you let them go under; you don't give them my money and then just hope......

Don't ask me how to put the salami back together after it has hit the fan for this reason:

the salami did not hit the fan all by itself, YOU threw it into the fan, thinking it would be a cool way to make a sandwich. Clean up your own mess.

This is part and parcel of our overall Corporate-Government ethos:

Microsoft wants something, so the state of Washington gets scared and has to come up with $100 million in incentives and tax abatements...otherwise Microsoft threatens to go elsewhere;

The government has just invaded a country and established a half-baked occupation, and now we're getting our butts kicked. So what do we do now? We need more troops and a longer time-line of occupation......or else, the government and our elected reps threaten that we'll lose !!

They play this game over and over. It's time to call their bluff.