Today’s intro is for stupid people. Most of us can skip ahead two paragraphs, but at the end, I'll give a quiz for the stupid. One learns lots of things from really stupid people. I said things, not right things. For instance, if you snoop deep enough, you can always uncover conspiracy in your very own neighborhood. Did you know those folks up the road that hate you are continually plotting treachery? They can be foiled only by your superb observational-deductional skills. That’s the true reason they don’t like you, you know.
Take this Bat Bus. Painted black, all the windows blacked out, and it’s been cruising the neighborhood for a week now. They park in the empty spot by the office, try to perceive how long this rig really is, a quarter again as long as my place. Three rooftop A/Cs. According to the office, they drive the whole thing to go buy a loaf of bread. This could keep the gossip-mongers on overtime for months. To make the day a hit, I got a call out to the doggie wig place. The situation is normal, the computer barely works because the high staff turnover makes sure there are too many cooks. Despite a warning sign, “Do Not Install Windows Vista On This Computer”, well, some people can’t read. The problem is the new hires are system specific. They don’t possess the intelligence or education to work anything but the one single application they’ve been taught.
So, they have to install Vista to get any work done. XP and Vista are superficially different, but that difference is the location and performance of command buttons. This is the sort of wicked market trick that I hope brings MS tumbling down. Speaking of crumbling empires, Greenspan finally said what I did thirty years ago—don’t let people go on welfare when times are good. When your turn comes, they’ll outnumber you.
That’s what’s happening. I grew up around wimps who called every protester against welfare a redneck. Wimps who were desperate to put on a false face of being kind and civic-minded. Fakes. Well, now you got 30 million people on the dole, cutely called “entitlements” and a shrinking workforce to support them. Oh, and illegal alien labor is not going to undermine the economy, it has already done so. If you don’t believe it, go out and try to find a part time job. There are already 40 million illegals living full time off those jobs.
There is nothing odd about Greenspan taking so long to fess up. Politicians have been buying the welfare vote since day one. They essentially planted a crop of the able-bodied who after a few generations consider welfare a birthright. Can’t get a job? Get pregnant instead. No drug test necessary. An oft-quoted statistic is that there are more white people (11.6 million) on welfare than black people (11.3 million). But blacks are only what, 12% of the population?
I’d say the era of feel-good handouts is about over. It will now have to collapse instead of fade out. I thought about that while soldering the wiring on my electric bass, repairing my computer, and getting ready to replace the front scooter tire. How are those people going to survive without free money? Free rent? Free cell phones? Free day care? And I’m quite content to let those who never spoke up go down the tubes with them. Serves ‘em right.
Trivia. Your GPS car transponder is the result of an airline tragedy. In 1983, the Soviets shot down a Korean 747 that strayed into restricted airspace. (It is likely the arrogant Korean pilot refused to acknowledge repeated warnings.) Then-President Reagan authorized civilian usage of the military GPS system. In airline talk, the destruction of an airplane in which occupants “intended to fly” is referred to as a “hull loss incident”. And you thought Greenspan was cute.
Quiz. Is the Bat Bus full of nefarious terrorists? Nope, it's a family with a couple kids around 8 years old. Tinted windows are a norm in Florida, there is nothing unusual about this rig at all. Except in very weak minds.
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