big R's so big
these days
the republidons
dare
call him
their "FDR"
well...
at least
one thing
may be
in line with
that silly
parallel
his predecessor
carter
like old hoover
is taking
a merciless beating
in the press
====================
listen to the press
and
the Reagan dawn
came after
the carter nite mare
-------------------------------
what bull shit
believe me
by 1980
jimmy
was headed
toward
the same
false light
on the horizon
--------------------------------------------
its 1979
oil prices
and
the inflation rate
are out of control
so like
the true
" would be"
public servant
he always was
god love him
Carter
selflessly
let
6foot7
fed man
paul Volker
bring
THE WHOLE
FUCKING ECONOMY
CRASHING DOWN
in double digit hell fire
right on
prez jimmy's
own little
georgia-pea pickin
head
----------------------------------
and of course
THE VERY
NEXT YEAR
WITH THAT
( which
by itself
would
certainly
have been
quite enough)
add in
a
noodle brained
wingless pigeon
" CONFRONTATION "
with ayatollah k
and
PRESTO
its a landslide
Carter's
out
and
Dutch
is in
--------------------
thanx
to jimmy
in stead of
a ball busting
policy
dilemma
to croak
or not to
croak
reagan
got a set up
pitch
he got tossed
a floater
an economic
" dunkirk "
aleady in progress
just what
he needed
to slam
the tax
rip off
of generation
right over
our heads
and
out of the
fiscal park
( see details elsewhere )
by the way
jimmy
re-elected
could never
have pulled
that off
even if it
occured to him
------------------------------------------------
but on foreign policy
carter was already
90% there
maybe
with
4 more jimmy jimmys
we'd never have got
the
wide screen
evil empire
exorcisism
but
be sure of this
we would have gotten
way more
then our fill
of kold war
hugger mugger
so
what
then
if
jim jim
got a second 4
shit
give or take
500
billion in federal debt
probably
by
today
after 20 years
of
dauntless
world spanning
klass mixmaster
forces
certainly
there
still
wouldn't
be much
to write
Mrs Roosevelt about
------------------------------
as to the boobs from babbitville
and there
"but but but
with
no Reagan dawn
to guide uz ...."
well
unless your worth
10 million or more
so what !
worse or best case
those higher marginal
tax rates
wouldn't have
made it
any further
then the berln wall did
it was in the air
the first republidon
prez
would have pulled
it off
even dan quayle
taxwise
by now
any which way
we went
we'd
be
within
easy hailing
distance
of
where
we are
right now
-----------------------------
why ?
cause
the carter
this nation
elected in 76
got "mugged"
on two fronts
back in '79
and after that
like truman
in '50
he fell
back on his
reflexes
and
made
nothing but
wrong
moves
the same ones
Reagan made
ole JIM JIM
i love ya humanity
as far as it runs
but
re-elected
would ya have
set
uz on
a worse/better
national course ?
nope
you
would have
taken us
into
the same
fucking waters
Reagan
got us into
-------------------------------------
two lefts
meant
take a right
a hard right
YES
AFTER TWO YEARS
OF
THE CLEANEST
FOREIGN PLAY
SINCE
Gable's
bad breath
repelled
scarlet o'hara
IN 1979
thru
a series of
un coordinated shifts
CARTER
RADICALLY
changed
uncle sams
DIRECTION
instead of
battling
the prevailing
THE KOLD WAR
trade winds
he let
the winds
blow him
he
UPPED
THE BIG D'S
BUDGET
NEEDLESSLY
FREAKED OUT
OVER IRAN
intervened
co-vertly
in
AFGHANISTAN
AND
CENTRAL AMERICA
failed
to intervene
in timor
etc etc etc
-----------------------------
so lookin back
wheres
the big diff ?
maybe
there'd
have been
less pentagonian
corporate pork
and
maybe
higher
marginal
tax rates
( maybe )
he was tight
as bark on a tree
so you
can bet
jimmy
would
keep
a tighter
taper
on
any
debt
build up
but
the long range stuff
soviet ago go
arab frenzy
the biz
of america
iz biz
well....
it would all
by now
be
the same
as we got
so
throwing out
the press tales
what
in hind sight
was really
at stake
in 80
was it
maybe
a junior achievement
fantasy
hoover v fdr
in reverse
a watershed
national choice
a choice
to undue
dirty deeds
otherwise
to continue
endlessly
or was
carter v reagan
more like
hump v nixon
in '68
not fucking
much of a big deal
either way
" a dime's worth
of difference "
as one
"great soul"
framed
the
"two big party"
choice
that other fateful
indian summer year
only difference
the year 68
itself
was a big year
some thing
very big
near the heart of this nation
really did snap in half
but '80
hardly
by then
( thanx to '68 in fact)
humpty was already dumpty
so to speak
-------------------------------
speaking of
dime sized differences
if yer a wagelinger
what would
a hump win in '68
or
a second carter term in '80
have meant ?
well
sorry
but
your elavator
was still goin down
pal
and
today
its no diff
if yer
an hours for hire type
I wouldn't
advize
planning
to retire
to damn early
on
the Kerry difference
========================
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