The Crazy Never Stops

     The Federal lunacy and cruelty is too much to keep up with, from yanking funding from a program to vaccinate children to intramural fights over the actual impact of bomb raids on Iranian nuclear facilities.  It's an ongoing "shock and awe" campaign of fucknettery, grift, Social Darwinism and junk science, ultimately self-defeating.  The question is not if it will fall apart under its own disconnection from reality and ramshackle improvisation but when -- and how hard it will hit.

     Who it will hit is a certainty, or rather, who it won't hit: the rich are safe; inside-dealing Congresspersons are safe.  And I'm not talking about the guy in your town who owns a string of fast-food franchises and buys a new Benz every year; as far as the top one or two or even five percent are concerned, he's exactly the same as clock-punchers like you and me.  And we'll be left carrying the weight when things go off the rails, our retirement and Social Security looted (five years and counting until it starts to ramp down, and not gently), Medicare hacked down to whatever minimum, health research stymied, stunted and strangled a-borning.  The "beautiful people" will float secure in beauty; the rest of us are left picking up their mess.

     Right now, it's like watching the fall of a basket of eggs dropped from a great height: it will hit; they will break.  The only question is precisely when and how far the raw egg will splash -- and how badly they've rotted on the way down.