A Nation of Excess

I was able to watch a small portion of the Republican National Debate on CNBC a few nights ago.  To my surprise two candidates who I know nothing about were declared winners.  In the short period of time I was able to listen to these candidates, only two seemed worthy of the presidency.  What do I mean by, "Worthy of the presidency?"  In cartoon language they looked like presidents, they spoke conservatively, authoritatively, and worthy of listen, and they spoke about well-thought out ideas.  They were Chris Christie, a former United States Attorney for and the current Governor of New Jersey, and Mike Huckabee, a Christian minister and former Governor of Arkansas.  While I did not like Governor Christie's condemnation of democratic candidate Hillary Clinton each time he answered a question, otherwise he said some worthy things.  He seems to be a straight shooter, not unlike Donald Trump, but with many more years of political experience.  Balancing the wit of a Jersey Governor with the trappings needed to be elected President of the United States....  well, there you have it.  I thought Carley Fiorina did well (looking like Cruella da Vil).  It was interesting to me who was declared the winner of this Republican debate.  Compared to my opinion it was a surprise. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio?  I don't even know who these men are, and I don't want to.  Deciding who was the winner of the debate is a metaphor for politics in America.  That may seem like a juvenile statement, but of course it is.  It's not about who is the most qualified to run the country.  Does the president really run the country anyway?  The answer is no.  Corporate America runs the country.  Simply ask yourself which faction of America wants what.  Personally I am so disconnected from any of what now is considered "mainstream America" it won't matter.  For who I vote will not win.  My concerns are different than this generation.  My first concern is the solvency of America.  Our current media are chipmunks in denial.  Only they want to keep their own jobs, and it is a superficial platform upon which they jabber.  What is the issue of the presidential election?  What is the issue that will restore America to her former self?  What will reinvigorate our economy and jumpstart out artistic culture?  The answer is solvency.  Solvency is lack of debt.  I am going to take this opportunity to bury my head in the sand and ignore the statistic, because you can't trust them anyway.  It's all lies.  Without print media, newspapers and investigative reporting, journalistic periodicals, and internet news sites with integrity nothing matters in America.  We are Alice in Wonderland doing out best to get through the day without having a nervous breakdown concerning the Conditions of America.  You can't contemplate it all, but you can ask yourself why America, the former superpower of the world, is so in debt.  The answer is obvious.  Ask Dick Cheney.  Ask the worst United States president in the history of our great nation.  Turning the page what can we do today to change this situation?  The firstvactually is to understand what money is being spent and where.  Good luck with that, the world's largest maelstrom of money and power.  The better solution is to mock it with political satire.  When the Conditions of America become so grim, one must make fun of them.  It is not easy to do, because what is burning through our cash faster than a California bush fire is Fort Bragg, North Carolina.  It is our national defense.  If we adhere to the publicly known statistics, seventy percent of our federal budget is being spent on our military.  Is this because of 9/11?  Is this because of ISIS and ISIL?  Why is this?  Why are we in Afghanistan?  Afghanistan.  Afghanistan is on the other side of the fucking world, and yet we are fighting wars there, in Iraq, and now Syria?  For what?  My cartoon answer very much in the view of Apple Computers is those natural resources underneath those Afghani mountains not to mention the poppies.  Who is getting the poppy money?  I know this.  I am ashamed to live in America, because I deserve better.  Our government is a cartoon and yet corporate America is laughing all the way to their foreign banks.  Apple, if we yield to the published statistics, has 114 billion in cash sitting in Norwegian banks.  Way to help America.