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I have sometimes wondered why we haven’t been attacked by al Qaeda since 9-11. Perhaps it is because our guardians have always found out their nefarious plots. Perhaps this is proof that God is on “our” side rather than theirs. Or perhaps they have no need to do so.
I sometimes wonder why they don’t try to assassinate one of the Presidential candidates. But if they believe that a Republican President would be worse for their cause than a Democratic President then they would not wish to do this (since my knee-jerk reaction along with that of millions of other Americans would be to vote a President in who would kill them until there was none left to kill).
It might be in their interest to allow a Democratic President to occupy the Oval Office. I am by nature an admirer of the Democratic Party (for my economic interests), but I would be the first to admit that I would not trust any of those who now aspire to lead this country from that party to lead it in time for war. I haven’t trusted a Democratic President to lead us in time of war since Lyndon Johnson. I guess this is one of the reasons I have been torn in my support of this party. I love their economic outlook, but distrust their ability to lead this country in time of war.
But the Republican Party has tried to give us both “guns and butter”. They are admired by those who have to run their businesses in this time. They have borrowed against a future “time of plenty” when we will have won “The War on Terror” (in 10 or 20 or 30 years), and until then all we have to do is “sit tight”, and keep the economy going.
I heard one fellow talking tonight about how “recessions” used to be part of the cycle of business. You got your job, worked until a recession came, perhaps lost your job, and got another during the next business cycle. But how did you live when you lost your job? If you were “smart” (or lucky), you had saved money to make it through to the next cycle. So you should have enough money saved up to last you for three months. Well, I don’t. I don’t know anybody who does. Or maybe you have. But you (fool that you are) put it into the stock market, and now you have only a portion of what you “saved”. Somebody made money, but not you, fool that you are.
So maybe al Qaeda doesn’t need to attack us. All they have to do is wait and watch while we spend our national wealth into bankruptcy. While Communist China takes on more of the physical production of the wealth of the world (the TVs, the toasters, and even the cars) some of us will produce the software that makes it run more efficiently. But what will the rest of us do? Are we even needed except as “consumers”?
