The Great Bailout Stall, Part IV: A Bad Dream
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Today, it's nothing but a bad dream, but, many years ago, before modern medicine had come up with more humane procedures for dealing with hemorrhoids, I suffered through a period of extreme discomfort in the sensitive posterior of my anatomy. Because I had vivid memories of my father howling in agony after undergoing a hemorrhoid operation decades earlier, I was concerned, to say the least, about following in his footsteps. (Strange metaphor, eh?)
Over the course of about a year, I visited two proctologists, but nixed letting them put me under the knife. Instead, they gave me a variety of salves and ointments to deaden the pain. As a result, I had "invisible" hemorrhoids for a full year. They were still there, of course, but by applying medication, I could pretend they weren't. What a marvelous delusion.
Finally, it got to the point where salves and ointments could no longer bail me out. In desperation, I went to a third doctor --- one who'd been touted in a newspaper article as "the best in his field." After a cozy little examination that almost put me through the ceiling, he said to me: "I'll give it to you straight. Your problem will never get better on its own. The only way to get rid of it is through surgery."
I was in such pain that, without even thinking about it, I blurted out, "When could you operate on me?" To my surprise, he said, "I can do it tomorrow if you're up to it. It's my day in surgery." Without giving myself the opportunity to mull over it and probably put it off, I impulsively said, "Let's do it."
Out of respect to your sensibilities, I won't give you the gory post-operation details that bad dream. Let it just suffice to say that, for the first few days, I regretted having been so impulsive. But soon I started to get progressively better. And within a month, I was pain free. I had survived the medical equivalent of a deflationary depression by getting it over with.
Now, I ask you to help spread the word --- friend by friend, neighbor by neighbor, coworker by coworker --- that what America needs is a hemorrhoid operation, not more bailouts. That means a lot of pain and suffering for all of us. And, make no mistake about it, we deserve it for having allowed our elected officials to turn the Constitution upside-down and dupe us into believing that we are obliged to answer to them rather than the other way around.
As Viktor Frankl once put it, man has a right to suffer. Suffering is a part of life. The time has come for us to tell the politicians that we don't want any more economic salves and ointments. The only way for things to get better is for government to get out of the way and stop making them worse. I say: My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for yourself.
People are resilient --- provided they are free to make their own way in the world. But with B. McBama likely to ascend to the throne in January, what is left of our freedom is likely to rapidly disappear (especially if he and his Marxist advisors decide to classify us as "rich"). If you've been listening closely to what he's been saying --- through his endless GAVEC statements --- you know that he has virtually guaranteed it.
Perhaps you're thinking, "But both B. and J. McBama are right. Something has to be done about 'the gap between the rich and the poor,' about those 'greedy' folks on Wall Street, about immoral speculators, et al."
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