Song of the Times

Ever since the Great Pork Bill of 2009 was signed in the building where I learned about mummies, Pluto (when it was a planet), and dead wildlife, I have had the following song stuck in my head:

Uncle Sam
Julissa Neely

Yeah you're dying at my feet
I am dancing in this flame
I've got my piece of candy
I hear your sad refrain
America I love you
I'll bum the old red white and blue
I'll take what's yours
I'll get what's mine
I'll buy the party line

We will thrive we will survive
Technology will save our lives
Goodbye to mom and apple pie
We'll dish it up until we die
If I can keep my piece of candy
The government will save me
And Uncle Sam, he's my man
He's gonna raise my baby

The president feels my pain
He cried on TV today
He knows I'm not to blame
Those dollar signs will change me
I'm living in the land of shame
Where the paper work is in place
In a modern bureaucratic way
Lord It will be my saving grace

Democracy will save my soul
Hallelujah let those dollars roll
I'll hitch a ride on the gravy train
It'll be my resurrection day
As long as I can keep my piece of candy
The government will save me
Uncle Sam he's my man
He's gonna raise my baby

In the land of the free and the home of the brave
I'll be dancing on your grave
Goodbye to mom and apple pie
We'll dish it up until we die

If I can keep my piece of candy
The government will save me
And Uncle Sam, he's my man
He's gonna raise my baby

Sung by Julissa Neely, a Christian pop singer, the song appeared in 1999 on her sophomore (and best) album Higher Ground. Obviously, the song was about the Clinton administration ("the president feels my pain/he cried on TV today") but applies just as much to the infant Obama administration.

Turning Pork into Bacon

It is official: the Anointed One and his tax and spend buddies just put America in a massive amount of debt. The “stimulus plan” gives us a lot of tasty pork. Even assuming that Keynesian economic theory works (it does not), most of the spending will not kick in for twelve to twenty-four months, and who knows what the economic situation will look like then. Really, the voters placed their trust in those who promise free money and give the siren call that regulation will solve problems. This is a dark time for freedom.

However, good can come from this.

Let each person use his $13 dollars per week to educate himself. Some suggestions to start your reading list:

• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell (admittedly, you would have to save your stimulus for two weeks, but it will be worth it).
• How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present by Thomas Dilorenzo.
• Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
• FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell.
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
• The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom by Robert A. Levy and William Mellor
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (again, it will be about two weeks of stimulus, but well worth it).

By reading these books, each citizen will recognize the lies of the collectivists. Perhaps then, and only then, we will resist future calls for free money and government solutions.