It’s something to review what I could have learned in high school, that is, Rome, Portugal, Britain or Great Britain, and on and on, these empires came and went. “The sun never sets on the British Empire” is one quote that comes to mind. And now we have America, bound by a common denominator to all the previous empires by a military industrial “complex”, untouched by the Department of Government Excellence.
And a trifecta of the House, Senate and White House that realizes with election over, deficits are a thing of the past, tariffs will replaces taxes, so taxes can go away.
The Senate is on the cusp of breaking parliamentary rules to railroad temporary tax breaks into permanent tax breaks so all America can look like Newport, R.I. with huge mansions for all, all the oligarchs anyway, and the rest of us left to enjoy tariffs, not to mention our wealth portfolios vanishing along with the rest of the world’s stock markets. We’re not talking animal stock, like egg layers or beef, we are realizing business worth. Just like a casino, where the house always wins, that fails because it went bankrupt, some forgot that New Jersey truth, the world gets a chill at a time commerce was running really well across oceans and borders.
It is because this one blowhard got an idea from some hedge fund manager who is really rich from plundering American businesses that tariffs are a shining example of how to…well, ruin everything. So boys and girls, menfolk and womenfolk, gather around the television and watch your earnings saved and invested go into other people’s pockets or just plain vanish.
After all, government is a show, a liberation if you will, for all to see and some to get really well off from, until like Rome, Portugal, Spain, etc., it comes tumbling down. History, history is not for public schools, it is for those that can afford private education, they know best. That is why rich men make excellent leaders, not to mention really good fairy tale tellers. Honesty is after all, a pleasure for the idle poor, not anything to do with Ten Commandments or laws or rules. Or governance.
Prentice Hicks