Tannishblog

Scanning the online news these past few days (yawn) brings me no muse. The biggest story seems to be the billions lost on supposed security tech. Bilking the Government. What’s news about that? I’m old enough to remember the thousand-dollar toilet seats in the pentagon’s budget in the seventies. The admission that our fearful leaders are failing at securing this great nation is likewise boring. I find it problematic that a nation can be buttoned down like that without massive fiscal losses by many major industries: Air traffic, logistics, tourism and hospitality just to name a few. These industries are just the sort of special interests that bought our government in the last two elections.

So I’m not surprised that Washington is pouring money into the toilet over Placebos of National Insecurity; these are the same people who poo-poohed the evidence of Al-Qaida’s intention in 2001. Now, in a fit of collective guilt, our administration is wasting money on silver bullets without need. This way, it looks like they care, that they’re concerned for their citizens in an upcoming election year. Who can fault them if nothing works? At least they tried. Now the American people are holding the receipts for bogus technology, and can be expected to gather more.

I would ask: Where’s the money coming from? China already has our economy by the gonads. Very soon it will fail to be profitable for them to continue bolstering our overspending - and at some point, we (and I mean our children) will have to pay them back.

None of that matters, really. The important thing is to continue the Rove, DeLay and Frist Circus of the Absurd well into the next congress. After all, Presidents and Veeps come and go - only congressmen can enjoy the benefits of careerism.

It’s all so boring! Wars, deficits, tax finagling, wreckless spending: Everything I read in the news is just so last millennium. How about something new?

Like peace.