The State of Our Affairs: Seven Haiku
By Robert Higgs • Tuesday December 22, 2009 10:46 PM PDT • 9 Comments
Copenhagen scam
Snow in Louisiana
Turn up thermostat
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Health care reform hoax
Splendid investment they say
Fog will lift next year
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Afghanistan war
Soldiers in cold winter fight
Widows wearing black
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Change you can believe
Dark clouds on the horizon
Night comes on quickly
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Frightened birds take flight
False hopes fall down suddenly
Foolish citizens
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Democrats on throne
Republicans hunker down
What goes round comes round
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Global warming soon
Peer review makes no mistakes
Cold winter this year
Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, Civil Society, Corruption, Elections, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Healthcare, Humor, Morality, Politics, Socialism, The State, War 
...Indeed
The Crackshot Crackpot | Dec 22, 2009 | Reply
Well-done!!!
Speedmaster | Dec 24, 2009 | Reply
They is some right nice poems there but the words don’t be rhyming. I reckon they’d go over right good along with some bongo drumming in one of them beatnik joints. I wrote a little tune about the way things is these days. It’s a blues song I play and it goes something like this:
they tax away your paycheck
make a workin man be poor
they tell you how to live your life
then they send you off to war
oh man, i got them republicrat blues
if you vote republicrat
you know you’re gonna lose
first they gonna tap your phone
then they read all your mail
if they catch you smokin a reefer
they’ll throw your ass in jail
oh man, i got them republicrat blues
if you vote republicrat
you know you’re gonna lose
they tell me osama’s coming
gonna take my liberty
but its all them laws they’re makin
keeping me from being free
oh man, i got them republicrat blues
if you vote republicrat
you know you’re gonna lose
Tom Blanton | Dec 26, 2009 | Reply
Tom!
What a concept!
Where, how, does Obama fit into all this, into your republicrat blues?
Do you think you are better off one year after Mr. Obama began calling himself “commander in chief of MY country.” Do you think Mr. Obama had included you in his plan, in his concept? Are you happy with Mr. Obama calling the what they shamefully call “Health care reform bill,” 95% what he wanted. Now, If I look at the other 5% Mr. Obama did not get, and not even pointing out to what these 5% actually might be, I only see an incredible, an insulting amount of little effort into what once would have meant “historic.” I call this selling out on the grandest scale. And all delievered simply with the unchecked and mostly unquestioned and certainly unchallenged Obama oratory lip and ear flapping.
Obama is historic. Few people now doubt that. The question is: what kind of historic? Let’s see how he thinks. He sent me this email over Christmas:
“Franz -
I wanted to share some exciting news: The Senate just passed a historic health reform bill.
In all the back and forth, it’s easy to lose sight of what this incredible breakthrough really means. But consider this: This Christmas, there are millions of Americans without health insurance who risk losing everything if they get sick.”
Tom, billions of dollars will be collected as taxes and given to the insurance crooks (Think insurance for profit profeteers)for 4 years before these “millions of Americans without health insurance who risk losing everthing if they get sick,” a good reform? Do you think Obama really has these poor folks in his plans. Remember, it took days to come up with hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out banks and insurance companies, days. How about an effective commander in chief? How about his standards of expectations. How about a caring commander in chief? How about his word? (Here I laugh out loud) how about “change?” Have you heard this cute little word come from his powerful lips recently? I doubt it very much!
Future ahoy,
Franz Grueter
Franz Grueter | Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
Well Franz, if I ain’t mistaken Mr. Obama is the Top Republicrat now that Bush is gone. He sure ’nuff gonna tax you plenty and make you a whole lot poorer. I’m hoping Obama did not include me in any of his plans because I’d be in real trouble then. But, to answer your main question, Obama is the chief culprit in much of my blues – him being the Republicrat-in-Chief and all that.
And like I said, when you vote for a Republicrat, you are bound to lose – no matter which one of them wins.
Tom Blanton | Dec 29, 2009 | Reply
Global warming soon
Peer review makes no mistakes
Cold winter this year
Jeez, Dr. Higgs! And here I used to give you credit for being in the know.
I recently “learned” that global warming could make the earth warmer, but it could make it colder too. That’s how we know it’s happening!
And I’m only ever exposed to the “news” by accident, but I’ve “learned” that much!
C’mon, Dr. Higgs. Stop putting down “science”!
Jerry | Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
Answer to Tom:
I am glad that we are on the same side in the playing area. Question, how can we get more onto our side? Get more to see it from our perspective?
Start a fan club?
Franz
Franz Grueter | Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
Dear Dr. Jerry!
99% of the reasonalby well educated US population, and (this is my guess) probably also 99% of the world’s population, know and understand the challenges gobal warming present, and that those challenges are real and not ficticious. The good news is, the fantastic news is, that there are a fabulous aray of opportunites all over the country, all over the world, that can benefit from the convertion from a carbon-burning economy to a green, and evironmentally-friendly economy – a healthy, natural and most cost-effective way to “literally” re-grow our nation back to a healthy and natural state. Of course, in the process, the rest of the world would be allowed also to grow back to their natural and normal state. We all win! (Scenario, the world is freed from the American Empire)
I happen to take Robert’s words serious. Personally I believe, and I will promote, a much more aggressive stance to convert to green and clean, and renewable energy. Why, because it’s no use to scratch the surface on the field, make it look pretty, patch it up, vertilize it, when you alreay know that very, very, very soon you must plow that very same field. Why? The top soil is dead, Jerry, dead!
Dr.Jerry, you said:
“I recently “learned” that global warming could make the earth warmer, but it could make it colder too. That’s how we know it’s happening!
And I’m only ever exposed to the “news” by accident, but I’ve “learned” that much!”
Dr. Jerry, I must admit, that is simply brilliant. Did you make that up all by yourself, or did someone help you with this unbelievably clever statement? I have seen almost identical jargon dealing with the very same topic. I’m curious, I wonder, what science do you study? Have you locked gear completely with the likes as the highly lucrative Exxon/Mobile PR machine. I know as a fact that these big boys use big guns, and big bucks to buy whatever is needed to maintain their diabolic grip on anything and anyone that would prevent them from getting their gooy and slimy and stinking fingers to where ever their quest for more oil and more dirty forms of oil production might take them. (I’m totally sure that you still believe that the war in Irak was 100% because of weapons of mass destruction and that the good American government only wanted to bring democracy and freedom to that country. I weep)Pollution and destruction on the grandest scale are whiped under the rug, and always with the help and willing hand of their buddies in the White House. And they, as often in the past simply explained and that is that: “national security.” I think that is cute! Don’t you Jerry? Certainly convenient. When I first read your grand line, my first reaction was “that is Ramsfeld talk.” Is it?
Dr. Jerry, let me ask you this: what do you think of Obama? Are we there yet? You must be happy with him just because of Copenhagen alone? That was quite a performance. You must love him, of course, he supports your science. Isn’t that odd? Obama? Considered a smart guy, educated, cares for us, the people? would subscribe to such bolony. Ahh, could very well be some sort of holy inpiration, you know some higher power! Now we are talking. That then explains a hole lot and certainly expands my glow and good feeling that we are in such good hands.
If you were King of America, Dr. Jerry, how would you deal with global warming?
With enormous anticipation, I wait for your powerful input and reply.
Future ahoy,
Franz Grueter
(Please forgive me Dr Jeerry, when I made a mistake in my hasty typing.)
Franz Grueter | Dec 30, 2009 | Reply
Jeez, Franz...You sure set me straight! Thankz!
Jerry | Dec 30, 2009 | Reply