Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Cesar Chavez on the $5 bill …

Why not?

As long as we’re changing portraits on American currency to pander to Democrat constituencies, I see no reason why it has to stop with replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.  There’s also a plan to keep Hamilton on the $10 bill – mainly because of the rap-hit Hamilton on Broadway – but add a group of suffragettes on the back.

So let’s see … we’re replacing Jackson – one of the country’s founders and two-time President – with a famous black abolitionist. We’ll also be replacing the engraving of the U.S. Treasury on the back of the $10 bill with black and white female suffragettes; but we'll keep Hamilton on the front because right now he's popular with playgoers in New York.

Where’s the Hispanic on our currency?  That’s why it’s time to consider Chavez. That would appease the Hispanic community, especially Mexican Americans, plus labor unions.   

Then we can start considering Caitlyn Jenner for the $1 bill. It could have a printed hologram that depending on the angle shows Olympian Jenner or Cosmo Jenner. Because the dollar bill is so widely used it can serve as a reminder to everyone to just get used to it.    

Now Ulysses Grant was a war monger and abuser of native Americans so let’s kick him off the $50 bill while we’re at it. FDR would be a great choice there if for no other reason than he represents exponential growth in government spending and expansion of entitlements. He’s also famous  for attempts to pack the Supreme Court to overturn the Constitutional balance of power between the Congress, the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch. Democrats already revere him as a near mythic figure, and, lest we forget, he was handicapped – a two-fer. 

Franklin can stay on the $100 bill. He was newspaper publisher, so he was in the media. Also, he was a well-known philanderer who had affairs with single and married women of all ages. Perfect.

There we are.  We’ve now appealed to all Democrat core constituencies. 

There’s only one thing left. We have to get rid of that annoying “In God We Trust” stuff. It’s offensive to atheists and way too moralistic.

Maybe we can change that to “In Politics We Trust.”

Or perhaps a simple ”Whatever.”     

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