Don't you love the games you played as a kid?

Some of my fondest childhood memories surround being outside playing the games kids play. My favorites were hide and seek, kick the can and monopoly if we stayed inside. The sheer joy of having nothing to worry about except your own satisfaction. The freedom from all the responsibility that comes with being an adult hadn't even entered into my mind. We didn't have to worry about doing our job or planning for the future or even if we had enough to pay the bills.

How was I to know that if I had chosen a career in politics I could have kept playing all those games and kept those juvenile attitudes. If I ran for the senate in Wisconsin I could still be playing hide and seek outside of Chicago someplace. They aren't worried about adult things like doing their job or acting responsible. Not a care in the world at their "undisclosed location". Just like I was when I was a kid they will stay and play until the demand for them to come home gets too much to bear. But for now, allie allie in come free boys.

Then there is kick the can. I could have been a US senator or congressman the last 20 years and kept playing this one. Just give it a good kick and run away before you get caught. No need to worry about the future because once you kicked it away, it was somebodys turn, just not yours anymore. The future was only determined by how far you could get away from it. That is exactly what our representatives have been doing for 20 years. That's when the warning bells started about social security and Medicare and Medicaid first sounded. And what have they done about it. Kick it as far as you can. Now it's not your responsibility anymore. Just kick it down the road like you were a kid and head into the capitol and see if you can have ice cream.

Nobody could forget playing monopoly either. Fire in the fireplace because it's cold outside and all of a sudden you have the world of finance at your fingertips. You buy and sell property with money that has no real value. If it gets late in the game you have to re-shuffle the money or the game stalled. There wasn't enough money to finish the game. Damn, I could have been a chairman in the Federal Reserve. They have no problem printing more money to keep the game going. And sometime very soon our dollar will be worth the same as a monopoly $500 bill. Do what you can to keep the game going. When massive inflation hits we will just print more. We're talking Park Place and Boardwalk here baby. Don't stop now. We'll figure it out later.

I'd rather not go into playing doctor when I got a little older as training for the TSA. But what a shame it is that people we have entrusted to represent us have chosen to play kids games. Senators shirking their adult responsibility to vote for the people who elected them. Instead they hide like a spoiled child waiting for Dad to get home. It's pathetic. Representatives from both parties continue to ignore what everyone knows is a system going broke fast. And they act like kids blaming other kids so no one actually takes the blame. Pathetic again. And now Mr. Ben decides to buy our own bonds which is just another way of printing more money. If you have a lot more of something, is it more or less valuable? Obviously less but if we stop now we might feel pain. You know, like adults do when they are trying to balance the household budget. Or when they are trying to save for their kids to go to college.

How screwed up is everything if our kids are more responsible than we are? The answer is it's pretty screwed up and if we elect adults who tell the truth we might get out of it. Or we can continue to elect people who lie and demagogue every issue rather than deal with it. The choice is in our hands. Whatever we decide, can we have ice cream after we vote?



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