Parlor games.

To defame and deride those who strive and achieve a measure of success is but an act of small minds consumed by envy. It serves no purpose but to create false divisions within society, and which the crafty politician, uses to further his/her employ. Rather than focus upon the problem at hand that being the need for fiscal responsibility, they play parlor games of rhetoric, leaving the common man at the mercy of the cruel reality of economic facts. You know of which I speak, “one cannot spend beyond one’s means for long before a pauper he becomes.”


I beg any of you to try and refute this.

So the train wreck of the Budget discussions has been filled with dramatic poses, virulent words and the dance of one upmanship.

“We must tax the Rich or granny will go hungry”, or so some contend, pointing crooked fingers at their foes laying out a blameless red carpet for themselves and their compatriots. Speaking to cameras, disconnected from the woes of their working class constituents, they scream about how it’s the fault of the wealthy that you cannot buy bread. Invoking the spirit of Vladimir Ilyich fist raised, they proudly proclaim their allegiance to your plight.

Amidst all this false posturing, and noise, one truth remains: Our children and grandchildren will pay the price for our current indolence and cowardice. We shall leave them with a legacy of broken dreams born of our failure to be honest.

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Allen R Butler