Reply #38: Exactly.

[Tansy_Gold]

And it's gonna continue to look like that until these WS maroons and their enablers/beneficiaries in DC get their heads out of their assholes and get a grasp on the reality of how a healthy economy operates. A REAL one, not a theoretical one. A REAL one that takes into consideration all the strengths and weaknesses, needs and desires, frailties and foibles of the human species. They ain't there yet. They ain't even close.

Let me reveal one of Tansy's deep dark secrets. Back in the day, I decided to try out for Jeopardy! I contacted the show and was given an appointment. I flew over to LA one Tuesday morning and took all the little tests -- the quickie quiz, the interview, the mock competition. Each time, the pool got smaller and smaller, until there were only about 20 of us left out of several hundred. A couple days later I got a call from Kelly Carpenter that I was scheduled for taping. Out of the hundreds of thousands of people who tried out for Jeopardy! in that year, I ended up being one of only about 300 who actually ended up on stage with Alex Trebek.

In that sense, I was in more elite company than the 535 legislators who have the power to revive -- or euthanize -- our economy.

But at the end of the day, whether I won or lost on a tv game show, I'm still just a human being. And the buffoons on Capitol Hill need to understand that they aren't so special either. They don't have superhuman powers. They aren't particularly brighter than the average bear. They still belch and fart and get runny noses and age like the rest of us. They need to be brought back to reality, and I sometimes wonder if all the hype, all the excitement, all the hoopla surrounding next Tuesday's events won't continue to mask the very painful and ugly reality we need to deal with NOW. Immediately.

Each day we wait may mean two more or ten more in the hell that's to come.

The answer is "Tomorrow."

I think we all know what the question is.




Tansy Gold