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Categories - Copywriting - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Government - Playing Fantasy Legislation By Web Smith We
indulge ourselves with things like fantasy football, fantasy
baseball, fantasy golf, and fantasy hockey, but these things are
normally harmless and provide us with entertainment and a reason to
communicate with our friends. Fantasy legislation, however, is what
we get in real life when some bleeding heart in Congress imagines
that he or she can somehow change the universe with the stroke of a
pen. They often come to Congress with their fantasies in place, but
put in the proper place to be dealt with only when they are home
alone in bed or nursing the 4th Martini, but if they
spend too much time in office, not really doing much, the power
vapor and lack of reality overwhelms them and they begin to allow
their wildest dreams to come to life. This is how $14 trillion gets
spent and $14 trillion explains how far gone these people are as no
one in their wildest, drug-induced psychosis could, no matter how
many times they repeated the words 14 trillion dollars, even
visualize 14 trillion dollars. Sooner
or later, these reality challenged people try to make something like
a fantasy of everyone owning a home, no matter how poor they are,
come to life so, resisting all common sense, they pass a bill
mandating that banks give people mortgages that they can’t afford to
pay. In their daydreaming stupor, it makes no difference to Congress
that the mortgages can’t be paid and thinking that they are seeing
their fantasy come to life leads them to drift of into another
fantasy of saving all of humanity by allowing millions of illegal
and legal aliens into the country. “Come to me”, they murmur. “I can
save you.” This fantasy build up is especially destructive as it
puts people, who might have been able to pay their mortgages if they
really struggled, out of work and makes sure that mortgages can’t be
paid. The banks try to wake Congress from its illusion, but
Congress, to avoid having their bubble popped, goes to their backup
and promises that the taxpayers will pay. “Just call on Fannie and
Freddie”, they chant. All thoughts of possible consequences are
strictly forbidden during these fantasy trips. As
we have seen with the government-run health care bill, where
Congress somehow imagines that it can take a limited number of
resources, spread them out over another 30-50 million citizens, plus
all of the illegal aliens, and have anything turn out better, some
fantasies are hard to die and the recurring and untreated fantasy
ends up being what prevents anything from being done. If Congress
had made an attempt to understand and deal with the real world 16
years ago when they first started sharing this misguided dream, this
country’s health care problems could be well on the way to being
resolved, but that would have required cognitive thought, with
some understanding of the real world, and that is way too much to
ask when someone is intent on existing in a denialist stupor.
Instead of having our problems solved, we have to be content with
whipping out our belts and beating these adolescent mind wanderers
back into submission before they can cause too much
harm. How can anyone look at you with a straight face and talk about a climate control bill? Granted that in human infancy, we used to prey to rain gods and as late as the early 1900s a few desperate farmers paid rain men to build smoky fires or water finders to perform theatrics while walking around with a crooked stick, but to attempt to pull this flim-flam on an entire nation really takes a firm belief that you are the only one in the country with half a brain. Hallucinations about controlling the climate, the mother of all fantasies, really takes the cake, but it looks like we may have avoided another round of destructive fantasy legislation now that scientists are attempting to salvage some form of credibility by backing away from the scary fairytale of man made global warming. It’s not carbon, the thing that plant life exists on, it was water, the thing that all life exists on, they now say. This is the stuff that our den leaders used to tell us, as Cub Scouts, sitting around campfires to make us have nightmares and young girls would make up during pajama parties to make each other squeal. It will be interesting to see what kind of pathology is used to deal with the existence of global water and how much better off we will be without it. The
problem with some of these situations is that members of the public,
with their own psychosis to deal with, have learned how to feed
themselves by feeding the fantasy. In the case of man made global
warming, scientists made up stories of and captured phony pictures
of threatened Polar
bears when the number of Polar bears is actually increasing,
collected incorrect measurements of artic
ice, generated false information about the rain
forests, and spread unverified rumors about Himalayan
glaciers melting. All of this came to light as things started to
snowball after the extent of ClimateGate
began to surface after the now famous hockey stick
chart was discredited. As it turns out, all of this is just
fantasy scientific speculation based on bad so-called
scientific models. These con artists, feeding off of the
taxpayers who they are trying to harm, actually suppressed data and
selected data in order to keep getting their research grants and
Congress was only to willing to accept their baloney as fact. They
have been on public assistance since they started college and, if
we’re not going to incarcerate them, we should make sure that they
get banished to the projects and welfare, which is the form of
public assistance they tried to put us
on. How does this happen, we wonder? The problem is that we allow these misguided individuals to stay locked up by them selves in office way too long and they reach a state where they are only too willing to be led down the wrong path by the next fantasy tour guide, that comes into office. The fantasy tour guide, of course, in this case, is Obama who seems intent on outdoing Bush and his WMDs, bank bailouts, and Project for the New American Century that he forewarned us about. We have to realize that cute, chatty, noble, and fierce are not the qualifications that we should be using as our selection criteria. We have to be more careful, not ask people to serve too long in fantasy land where they will eventually lose all track of reality, and make sure that people are well grounded and reality based before we put them into office. It’s well past time to give these people a break and get them out of office so that they can try to recover before they dream up some new fantasy trip to try to take us on. In the meantime, keep close watch.
Web Smith is a former telecom and computer industry executive who has founded or been a founder of seven technology companies. He is currently a copywriter, sales and marketing consultant, and website owner. You can access some of his work here.
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