Remember that episode of the original Star Trek in which Kirk and crewmen find themselves in an alternate universe when something goes haywire while they are beaming up to the Enterprise? They deduce that they are in a parallel universe that exists in the same space as their home universe. The alternate looks pretty much like their universe, but it's not; the people in the alternate universe act differently, think differently. Reason and common sense don't apply; nothing makes sense.
Below is an article about such a place: Columbia, South Carolina. The economy there is crashing fast and furious; everybody is getting hit. People are trying to survive on $100 a week unemployment checks. Life is getting worse with no reason to hope for anything better.
The alternate reality: the city's mayor has cooked up a list of projects totaling $140,000,000. It's a plan for "stimulus," "job creation," and "economic development." Terrific! Who's going to cough up the cash? That Santa Claus on the Potomac, Mr. Obama, that's who. So Mr. O has $140,000,000 to spend in Columbia, SC, does he? Well, no, not really. But he will just as soon as he borrows that amount and about a trillion other dollars from the Chinese or the Japanese or the Martians or generous folks somewhere in an alternate universe. And why will foreigners lend $1 trillion (and more) to a country to which they have already lent trillions? Tradition. Or bailout (we're just too big to fail). Maybe charity. Pity?
The whole world is falling into depression, but we Americans think that we can save ourselves by raiding the savings accounts of foreigners who will most certainly want and need to use their own money for themselves. This absurd situation is the only hope Mr. Obama offers us for the future of our country: beg and borrow from foreigners. We've beamed into a bizarre alternate reality where reason and common sense have been replaced by playing make-believe and wishful thinking. Nothing makes sense; soon nothing will work. Our mission: To boldly go where no man has gone before--right over the cliff!
Read it here
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