Impact Is Imminent

Fire mission.

You know all that horseshit about how "today, a woman in her fifties is now the new forties?" Well, a trillion is now the new billion. We are looking down the barrel of a trillion dollar stimulus cannon, and we're preparing to load a #7 bag charge and fire it for effect in the hopes it will salvage our cratering economy.

Shot, over.



Obama yesterday referenced the need to get our economy turned around...but what exactly does that mean? A return to the heady days of 2003? 20% annual increases in home values ad infinitum? New his and hers SUVs in every driveway? Relentless suburban sprawl with its repertoire of strip malls, fast food huts, smog shops and office parks? The destruction of 'community?' Office parks filled with mortgage brokers, refinance specialists, title insurers, real-estate professionals, and a thousand other people in line to take their cut in your housal transactions? Turn it around, back to the old economy of debt leveraging and negative savings?

Shot, out.

Bringing out the big guns might just make a bigger cratered economy. Yet, it might be just what I've been looking for. All my pessimism regarding our shitty American landscapes and architecture, our entitlement attitudes, our wasteful attitudes towards water, energy, and fisheries...our disconnectedness to our land, where our food comes from, and the wholesale destruction of our ability to produce anything for ourselves anymore...much of these things I decry might actually be rectified by the shelling of our old habits. The stimulus shell is already headed down range.

Splash, over.

As we look up to observe the impact, we think, what if this doesn't work? What if it don't work? Can we really salvage a battle scarred economy by shelling it some more, shelling it with more of the same shit that got us into this mess? More freeway and bridge building? Continued hollowing out of our manufacturing capability?

Splash, out.

Impact is imminent. We will soon witness the firepower of the Obama administration, wondering what the shelling of a trillion dollars will do for us.