AN ECONOMIC FAIRY-TALE

Once upon a time when crooks were in their prime during a wave of corporate crime, America lost its soul and bought the pie in the sky lie of a do-or-die guy on a roll who stole control of the whole dang shebang, The nation was in a downward spin, but the fools stuck with him through thick and thin and made him the King of the U, S, A,

At his inauguration, as ruler of a dying nation, Dubya declared forget today, wait and pray for a bright tomorrow. The secret of our success will be borrow, borrow, borrow. To the sorrow of nations and corporations who invest in our rehabilitation, we won't reimburse. If it gets worse, their debts will soar as they loan us more and more.

Foreign leaders say trust the U. S. A. They'll repay. That's their way. Those honest fools live by rules. And money we will earn on interests and commissions will make us richer than we already are."

So they went along and when we agreed to repay a dime on the dollar they didn't holler. They knew that's how you do what you do to renew faith in the almighty dollar. Any scholar of high finance with his head in his pants will say take a chance. Don't turn your back on the romance with democracy. It may be an hypocrisy but it's the only way to go. In the end America may go down the tubes and the rubes will wind up with egg on their faces as they get on bread-lines of their own design.

Once there was a land of milk and honey and everything looked bright and sunny, everybody had tons of money and believed in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claws just because and that's the way it was.