Comedy
Welcome to another month-old episode of the modern moron. Not because you’re just getting around to it, but because I’m just getting around to it. So by the time you get around to it, this episode with be months old rather than just one month old. See there? Leading of with some really valuable information. Speaking of pointless, In this episode the Senator talks about his desire to go to the Grand Canyon, Hike from one side to the other, probably at night, and then come back home as soon as he’s finished. I don’t get it… why go to such a beautiful place that’s considered one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, and then get through it as quickly as possible… half of it at night, and then leave? Why not stay and enjoy its beauty? Do you do it just so you can say you did it? In the Senator’s case, I think so. I think combined with his severe case of FOMO, fear of missing out, he is far more interested in telling other people he had an experience rather than experiencing the experience. Getting that guy to just sit down and stop running in the rat race is like getting a monkey to stop eating a banana…. It’s not gonna happen. About halfway through… right after we talk briefly about getting vaccinated, we start to wrap it up and the Senator says he’s glad I’m doing well, but the guy never once asked me how I was doing. All he did was launch into his 50 yard dash to the Grand Canyon and back. Naturally, I call him on his poppycock. What else, I do talk about my disappointment at the country opening back up. I’d rather stay in quarantine for the rest of my life. And we talk about where we are going to retire, without the Senator taking into account where his wife would like to retire. You’d think that guy would learn for Christ’s sake. I need to get his wife on this program… then we’ll find out where he’s really going to retire. So there you have it. I’m thinking right now you must be either very lonely or very bored to be listening to us two idiots, but I sincerely thank you for doing so. CLOSE - Who can’t use a little more tolerance? Because we are always so far behind in our episodes we don’t address the most recent events of the day, week or even the month, but recently we heard President Biden address congress with probably the biggest program of… some will say investing in the future of this country, others will say just plain ol’ spending. But I think the most heartfelt moment of his speech came from this clip... All seriousness aside, here is a clip… and I cannot believe he said this as I can’t believe some lunkhead network analyst didn’t jump all over this. He was talking about child care, I believe, for children under 6 years old, and I doubt any republican would deny that childcare is not an important issue to be addressed, it’s the “how it gets done” part that divides everyone. But the president, after passing an almost $2 Trillion dollar stimulus package, said these four magic words… Excuse me? What was that? I truly believe he went off script for those four words and I don’t think they were wisely chosen. I don’t think the president has a real idea of what we can and cannot afford because all I hear him say is that we cannot afford not to… is that a double negative? And when he did finally address the “how” of paying for all of this? He talked about where it would not come from, the middle class, of which I am a member. I’m not a one percenter like the Senator. But the Senator and I need to have a talk about what a “fair share” is, because I heard Biden say that phrase quite a bit, fair share. I’m wondering at what income levels do we go from poverty, to lower class, and to middle class, upper middle class, and finally the elusive upper-class. I wonder if I can get the Senator to agree on some level that as we move up that latter, the rungs get farther and farther apart. And by that I mean, how many incremental dollars does it take to get to the next level? And by next level, I mean to the next “standard of living”. So does an extra $10,000 mean the same to someone making $40,000 as $10M means to someone making $40M? Does someone taking home $30 million have to change their standard of living compared to someone taking home $30 million. And, does someone taking home $30,000 have to change their standard of living compared to someone taking home $40,000? Percentage-wise, yes they are the same but I wonder if the Senator would agree that $10,000 means more to a poverty level person than $10M makes to someone making 10’s of millions of dollars? I also heard a financial “expert” say that (paraphrasing) the top 1 or 5% income earners in this country, under Biden’s proposal, will take home approximately 40% of the additional income they make above what they normally make. 40%... when I hear that I have to say it almost doesn’t seem worth it to make the additional when someone else is taking more than half. Is that a fair share? Maybe...maybe, Biden’s proposal is just a starting place for negotiations… like the sticker price on a car. Because he’s asking for expenditures similar to what FDR was asking for when he took office in 1933… at least I have heard that comparison; that we are in a similar position as a nation and globally. So let the negotiating begin hopefully.