It is a mad, mad, mad world...

 

 

What - me worry?

 

 

 

This is for all those people who happen to be a little long in the tooth. Those who grew up reading a magazine called Mad. A magazine with a forlorn anti-hero named Alfred E. Newman. The tag line for Alfred was always "What - me worry?" I think the author of Alfred's apathy and ignorance could have been looking ahead decades to many of the people who walk our land today. Rome is burning, Nero is playing his fiddle - however, very few seem to give a damn. Welcome to our mad, mad, mad world. 

 

Here we sit. Stuck in neutral. The huge bill, which was going to be the signature piece of legislation during the first term of Barrack Hussein Obama, is disintegrating right before our eyes. The ironically named Affordable Care Act has picked up some unwanted baggage in the past few days. Consider the following:

• It was reported that the cost for health insurance for men in California is going to increase over 140%.
• It was reported that the average cost of annual health insurance for a family will be $20,000 and therefore, over 3 out of 4 families will not be able to afford coverage.
• A recent headline was a 10 year old girl dying of cancer was refused treatment. When Kathy "SillyBus" was asked about it, the reply was "some live, some die". Cold, very, very cold.

Do you want to talk about the economy? Every time one of our low or no information citizens are asked how things are going, the reply is "Holy cow, have you seen the Dow?" The real story is this - thanks to Ben and the boys in the Federal Reserve, we have inflated the biggest bubble yet in the stock market - and some smart people think it will get even bigger before it pops. The housing market is improving, but the standards are once again being relaxed by the lenders (thanks Fanny and Freddie). In other words, some people are being given loans who shouldn't be. This is what caused our financial mess in 2008. It may take years to once again let our houses rise to "normal" levels - we should not force any growth beyond that - and lend money to people that can pay it back.

What our Administration SHOULD be focusing on for the next two years is simple - fix the ObamaCare mess before it ruins the country, and (as you promised you would) focus on the economy. We are smart enough to know we don't need gimmicks for either of these. Pixie dust and smooth talk will not work - we need real solutions, and we need them quickly. We are six months away from 2014 when the real teeth of ObamaCare really start to bite. Already we have seen enough to know what is coming is bad - real bad.

My advise to the president is this - stop acting like Alfred E. Newman when the country is faced with real problems. You wanted this job - you campaigned hard for it (some say you still are) - so now lets get to work. What? Me worry? Yes, Mr. President, you should. As with the rest of us, we should all be very, very worried.