Sectarian Strife

Musk vs. Trump

Once a big organization achieves some success, there are going to be conflicting factions. I don't know what they are arguing about and I don't want to know. I am willing to wait and see how this all plays out. I like the idea that they are cutting waste and fraud, but as I understand it, even though waste and fraud amounts to zillions of dollars, it is a miniscule portion of the federal budget. If we are ever going to rein in inflation, the budget will need to be cut, but that is going to be very tough to accomplish. There are too many powerful people with their noses in the trough, and they are not going to like being put on an allowance.

When FDR led us to victory in World War 2, he set the stage for the phenomenal economic boom of the 1950s. Never mind the details, the big picture is what I'm thinking about. FDR and his propaganda machine fostered a belief in the minds of many people that we were doing the right thing by going to war and spending zillions of dollars on building weapons of war. Basically, he built a religion.

But by the 1960s, people began to see that there were problems in paradise. So for the next 40 odd years we kind of staggered along, sort of fighting wars and trying various programs to try and fix the problems at home. Then Barack Obama came along and he sold the people a new religion. The upshot of this new religion is that it enriched his loyal supporters instead of the Military-Industrial complex. The thing about just giving money to your friends instead of actually buying stuff, is that different groups of people get the money. Your friends are going to either spend it on parties and useless junk, or invest it in the stock market, which might be why the stock market keeps going up. When you buy stuff, the company that makes it hires people, so the money gets spread around more and isn't so concentrated.