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Why keep it anonymous? For some things are OK, for some much better than that and yet for others things are very bad and they have had to adapt to a very new and harsh reality. I can tell you this, there isn’t much hope that things will be better any time soon.

There was a spot on cable this evening about Caligula and how he managed to destroy Rome in four years. He was killed by a group of the Praetorian Guard led by Chaerea who saw this as a chance to restore the Republic. They put Caligula’s uncle Claudius in charge and things were no better. In fact, the people clamored for a return to the Empire and the death of Caligula’s assassin. Claudius had Chaerea killed and re-established the Empire though worse than before. Sound familiar?

We are living with crushing uncertainty and threat of lots of negatives. I can’t say it is much different from what prisoners lived with, characterized by the Stockdale Paradox. Constant threat with unfulfilled hope that things won’t keep getting worse. Waiting and hoping for something positive that never comes and not knowing how long they must endure. Most people are not able to simply hunker down and endure. I’ve often said we can stand on our heads in a cesspool if we know how long we have to do it and can come up for a breath now and then. obastard is like living in a cesspool without end. Under this condition hope eventually dies, it is dying now.

The guy that works part time up at the farm has given up on finding permanent work after a layoff, call back and then the old line light construction company he was working for just closed the doors. He picks up as much as he can on the side but he is pretty much just under employed. He lives the life Hand Williams, Jr. described... a country boy can survive though he knows he is on the edge.

I think smart people decide on self employment after so long of no success in the job market but they quickly find that regulations creep into every single corner of their lives.

There is a new scam supported by companies who hire small and other businesses called ISNetWorld... ISNUTworld is what I call it. A compliance company that charges the contractor for the service. Sweet deal for the hiring company who are running scared of running afoul of some pass through regulation non-compliance issue. Anyway, each company has their own set of questions maintained by ISNuts and ISNuts makes no effort to sort commonality... just a free-for-all that we have to comply with to work. There are virtually hundreds of inane questions and data collected... it serves no purpose at all but for someone to cover their asses and ISNuts to scam a buck.

Like one guy said, property taxes go up either by appraisal (very unrealistic) or by rate. The locals even rape their neighbors for taxes to feed the machine that serves up power and prestige for a few weak minds. We have been and continue to write checks we can’t cash.

Some people, who retired from public service, are not doing to badly at all though in some states they are wondering how much longer the gravy train can last. Anybody who is self funded in retirement is running a fool’s errand because maybe a fraction of a percent have managed to stash enough and I think the FEDS will eventually come after that at the rate things are going.

Even if obastard does not return this country is so evenly divided that all we will do is seesaw back and forth nipping away a little more each time the left is in power and gaining a lot less back when the right is in power. I fear the only solution is complete and utter destitution, destruction and reconstruction. The right does not have the resolve to make sweeping change because they always keep their eye on politics. As someone here in FR reminded me, maybe they have to for the greater good. I think though that this too is a fool’s errand because all it does is prolong the day until things just fall completely apart. Better to just get it over.

Misery is what most of the country is in though many can put on a good game face and play through. This is the reason for the rising insurance of toys one fellow mentioned. Sort of a live, laugh and love for tomorrow we die mentality?

I wish that every person who voted for obastard were suffering but they are not because most have made a lifestyle out of living in mediocrity on the dole.

So why keep the crimes against humanity that are being committed anonymous? Why hide the terminal illness infecting our Republic, Capitalism and our Freedoms?