Reaganomics must have been dreamed up by the French

While I was in that foreign land 'Can - a - da' for the Olympics, I was struck by how awful the Celsius system is. Canadians will never admit this, of course, not because they want to defend the French, who created the thing, but because it's different than we have here in the US and, bless their hearts, anything that is American cannot be discussed with anything close to an open mind with our good friends to the north.

Still, it's stupid.

Worse, it seems absolutely rational, absolutely superior.

It's only stupid when put into practice. I mean, 28 degrees should not be a negative! And boiling water is really just too freaking hot to be set (yes, arbitrarily) at 100.

This is exactly what I think of Reaganomics. It makes so much sense. It's all zero is the freezing point of water, 100 degrees is the boiling point. Or, in this case, we can LOWER taxes and INCREASE revenues while LIMITING the scope of government and INCENTIVIZING business. Of course, as I've shown, it breaks down, utterly, in reality. Because, as mentioned many times before, what it actually does is allow all of us to PRETEND that we can get $1 of government spending for only, say, 68 cents. Forever. Because it GUARANTEES that we don't EVER have to feel the full pain of our spending.

So we spend and spend and spend some more.

And tell ourselves, in good time and bad, that -- no! -- we must reduce taxes, we must cut taxes, we must limit taxes!

So we'll have more money to spend.

Remember, if I offered you $1 dollar for only 68 cents, you would take that deal. Every time. Forever. Until I'm absolutely bankrupt. That's what Reagaonmics *enables* even if it was never the intent.

We gave this the old college try, though, for sure. And look where we are. Working harder -- if we can get a job. Neck deep in debt, us and the government. Two job family, a minimum. Education, heath care, retirement, good schools, nice home, all getting more and more out of reach with each passing day.

Ever wonder where all that money went? Or where it all came from? Probably best if you don't think about it since it's never coming back.

Let's not be like our dear Canadian brethren. Let's not hold on to something that teases us, year after year after year, with the notion that it is superior when, deep down, we all know it's not. Let's send it to the dustbin of history, along with celsius. Who gives a shit what the Canadians think.