Obama the Magician

It is indeed interesting, is it not, to sit back and watch the popular Soap Opera – Political Intrigue? Okay, it’s not a real television show. Actually, it is far worse. It is in fact the spectacle of our politicians in action. In this case, the American President.

Not so long back, the President stood on a financial cliff. It made headlines. Palms were sweaty. Buttocks cheeks were clenched. What would happen? Talk about a melodrama. I hoped that America would plunge over the cliff, but, alas, the plot was rewritten by the directors.

Anyway, I digress. The financial cliff. It loomed large. Here is America in financial strife. The President opens the public purse to find naught but moths. Sad, so very sad. However, what we obviously did not understand was that Mr. Obama is a magician.

In the wake of the Sandy Hook incident, the President was magically able to find $500 million for a gun violence package. I wish I had paid more attention because I would have liked to have seen his magic wand, cape, and which particular magic words he used. Maybe you can help me out. Did he give a, “tada!”? Maybe it was the old “abracadabra”? Anyway, off on a tangent again.

I wonder what the American people think. I looked at the American “debt clock” today and noted – apart from the scary numbers – that every American owed $52,000; that is their share of the National debt. I wonder, would the American people prefer to have their debt burden reduced or to have the government waste more money in yet another futile pursuit?

Is it even possible that wasteful government spending and futile solutions actually contribute to certain lamentable incidents like Sandy Hook? On a lesser scale, how many Americans are going to put a gun to their head and pull the trigger because of debt? How many are going to be exasperated by the President’s magic trick, when nothing is being done to relieve the debt burden and the consequent suffering?

A massacre with a gun brings attention and the magic appearance of $500 million. Flip the coin. What of the single, self inflicted gunshot of the exasperated individual weighed down by debt? Maybe the magic millions should be put in the bank to pay off debt and relieve genuine suffering. Methinks the peoples of America would find this action more satisfying.