Moon beams

Obama, the magic-maker, said to himself, “I have no qualifications, I have no experience, but I have a dream; “I want to be president of the most powerful nation on earth.” He said change, change, change, and, by golly he would make changes as soon as he figured out later what to change. Having done the impossible, the magic man feels safe in promising more of the impossible. He tells us he is going to give us a multi-million man job-creation public works plan and fix all the bridges and roads. He will give us free medical care, free college for everyone, free broadband internet for one and all. He will give billions to the car companies so that the autoworkers union can keep all their goodies. More benefits for those who do not work - the unemployed. He is going to clean up the environment, build up the infrastructure, fix the broken public education system (he has his kids in private school until he can get that done.) Why, he is even going to install energy-saving light bulbs in government buildings. He cagily uses the word “invest” rather than “spend,” because the word spend invites questions of where the money comes from, and he’ll have to figure that out later. This moon-beaming is a re-enactment of the new deal. He probably has no inkling that FDR, with all his inefficient, bureaucratic, socialist, make-work projects, prolonged the depression and maintained double-digit unemployment for ten years by stifling the economy, and crippling a normal recovery. In his typical, “tell em anything, they don’t know any better,” style, Obama said, "We won't just throw money at the problems."