Then The One said, "I shall tax
your Capital Gains when you sell your
homes!"
And the people yawned and the
slumping housing market collapsed.
And He said, "I shall mandate
employer-funded health care for EVERY worker and raise the minimum wage.
And I shall give every person unlimited health
care and medicine and transportation to the clinics."
And the people said, "Gim'me
some of that!"
Then he said, "I shall penalize
e mployers who ship jobs overseas."
And the people said, "Where's my
rebate check?"
Then The One said, "I shall
bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!"
And the people said, "Coal is
dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don't care for that part about
higher electric rates."
So The One said, "Not to worry.
If your rebate i sn't enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you
out. Just sign up with ACORN and your troubles are over!"
Then He said, "Illegal
immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let's grant them amnesty,
Social Security, free education, free
lunches, free medical care, bilingual signs and guaranteed housing..."
And the people said,
"Hallelujah!!" And they made him King!
And so it came to pass that
employers, facing spiral ling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their
prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of
business and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff. The
banking industry was20destroyed.
Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a
means of support.
Then The One said, "I am The One
- The Messiah - and I'm here to save you!
We shall just print more money so everyone will have enough!"
But our foreign trading partners
said unto Him, "Wait a minute. Your "dollar is not worth a pile of camel
dung!
You will have to pay more..."
And the people said, "Wait a
minute. That is unfair!!"
And the world said, "Neither are
these other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a
Socialist State and a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our
rules!"
And the people cried out, "Alas,
alas!! What have we done?"
But yea verily, it was too late.
The people set upon The One and spat upon him and stoned him, and his
name was dung.
And the once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people were
without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change The One had given
them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them and like a
whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.
And the people beat their chests
in despair and cried out in anguish, "Give us back our nation and our
pride and our hope!!"
But it was too late, and their
homeland was no more.
You may think this is a fairy
tale, but it's not.
It's happening RIGHT NOW!