Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, "Do you think they know what they're doing?" The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter. As we talked, I quickly realized his asking suggested his own considerable doubts. Yes, it's early, but an eerily familiar feeling is spreading across party lines and seeping into the national conversation. It's a nagging doubt about the competency of the White House.
And in an absolute jaw-dropper, he told business leaders, "I don't like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government's role." No wonder Americans are confused. Our President is, too.
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After some pondering, I have come up with the solution to poverty in the United States:
We just need to replace our current national "leadership" with homeless people. Including Dr. Ogabe, Nancy, Dingy-Harry, Bernanke, Tax-Cheat-Timmy, and most of the banking industry.
It's a win-win-win: the homeless get outrageous salaries and the poverty rate plummets (and how could they make any worse decisions than are being made already?), Ogabe and his minions could go back to productive work (what's that? they don't have any useful skills? hey, no plan is perfect!), and the electorate would get a brief and highly educational glimpse of the true nature of their emperors (until one of the homeless was found to be skillful with a
teleprompter anyway).
But then Britney Spears limousine would go by and we'd be trampled as they rushed to get her autograph...
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