August 30th, 2022
Deciding among various wrong directions
Recent poll results show that 74 percent of Americans feel that the country is headed in the wrong direction… pointing out worries about massive inflation, skyrocketing interest rates, the doubling of violent crime in cities, and over 2 million illegal immigrants entering the country from Mexico this year. Citizens are suffering more than they have ever suffered in their lives. Some have said they’d rather have COVID than have to deal with such incompetence in the leadership of the country. Sadly, many people have gotten stuck with both.
The Administration has responded that everyone needs to buck-up, because it could be a whole lot worse. There were times in the not-too-distant past where citizens had to deal with horse manure piling up in the streets, no fresh doughnuts, social pressure to smoke cigarettes, and going Bowling as your “big night out on the town.” No one is making you go bowling now.
Pundits point out that the Administration just seems to be befuddled on what to do. The current mess is not unlike the Jimmy Carter malaise years, whose team wrote the book on incompetent befuddlement. Many of the President’s closest advisors now admit that they dozed through their Economics class in college, and never quite understood all those crazy Supply & Demand graphs that kept crossing over each other. But they woke up when the left-wind professor described the wonderful benefits of taxing normal people out the ying-yang, while giving free rides to the social underbelly to even things out.
The Administration believes that focusing on increased taxes represents the least-bad path forward. The advisors argue that if you levy high taxes on everyone, they will likely get so pissed-off that they will forget about all those other problems.
A minority of people still believe that the President will pick a path to get us back on our feet, citing that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. They just need to make sure that the blind squirrel doesn’t get run over by the lawnmower during his dinner.
Disclaimer: all stories in Bizarreville are fiction, at least when originally written.
