If you grew up in a two parent
household you likely experienced one of those weird moments with those two
parents. Let’s say you want to go to the
movies with your friends. You
immediately ask your mom, who promptly passes the buck and says, “Ask your
father.”
You track your father down and say, “Can I go to the movies?”
He queries, “Ask your mother. If she says it’s okay, then you can go.”
You pass your mother on the way out and shout to her, “Dad said it was okay.”
Now you know full well neither parent agreed to that trip to the cinema, yet the kids went and snookered both parents, in which case another story at another time will be how to ask for forgiveness rather than permission. But I digress.
For your information, this is one of the same tactics professional thieves, aka. life-long politicians, use to pave their gold-covered roads to fabulous riches for themselves.
Another one of those smarmy tactics is also one of the seven deadly sins: greed.
It took only a nanosecond for me to realize who the main subject of a recent story was. The story-in-question was about a fellow named Elon Musk. Musk is a very, very, very smart and successful entrepreneur. His business is making electric vehicles and rockets.
Although I, too, made rockets, mine were about two-feet tall and made of paper towel cardboard rolls, fitted with balsa wood fins and a balsa nosecone. They flew about 500 feet into the air. Musk’s rockets, on the other hand, fly miles into the air and softly land for re-use.
Of course, mine cost about $3 each. His rockets cost about $50,000,000. Based on that, his should fly from here to the Moon.
In any case, the other day, a
fellow named Bernie Sanders, a U.S. Senator from
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| Professional thief wearing his disguise |
Sanders likes to fantasize about that kind of money. He ran for president recently and failed because all his brilliant ideas involved taking other people’s money. Seemingly in concert with the Biden Organized Crime Family, Sanders feels as though taking things that do not belong to him are fine inasmuch as the taking doesn’t involve a gun and getaway car.
But Sanders must have forgotten to take his meds and began talking into a microphone at a Senate budget committee hearing, with the words coming out of his mouth for others to hear. Uh, oh.
He complained that Musk had enough money to feed, clothe, and educate most of the planet’s population.
Sanders mentioned Musk’s SpaceX Company, and thought that creating thousands of high-paying technical jobs to send rockets to Mars was frivolous. His actual words were:
“Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don’t go hungry, people are not homeless, and all Americans have healthcare.”
What he simply should have said was: Although you have made unbelievable amounts of money without getting dirt under your fingernails, you’re too stupid to spend it wisely. I’ll do it for you.
But it must be borne in mind that Sanders made practically ALL his money by suckling on the guvment teat as a politician in one form or another. He never invented anything other than greed of someone else’s money. He has no electric cars and no rockets in his thin résumé, so, he is not only envious, he’s also an empty suit.
You get the idea. You exploit people to get what you want, just
like mom and dad. And to punctuate this
stellar example of greed, Sanders finally said, “The level of inequality in
Sanders was wrong. He’s the true threat to our democracy by punishing success and rewarding sloth. Get a job.
