The Flim Flam Enablers

The Flim Flam Enablers

Psst, Psst. Hey, you there. Yes, you. You are the one, aren’t you? One the many anonymously hiding right there behind all of your righteous indignation about Government running amuck, CEOs lavishly rewarding themselves with millions and millions, society with no morals and no sense of right and wrong, everything going to hell in a hand basket, your IRA, savings and retirement stash fading to chump change. Yes, I thought it was you. Well to be honest, it’s also me too. We are all part of the vast American majority that stands shoulder to shoulder in our infamy; we are the Great American Flim Flam Enablers. The good ole Politicians, Grift’ers, Money Managers, Corporation Moguls, Stock Brokers, you know, the Flim Flammers who rely on us enablers to keep the Flim Flamming vocation alive and functioning well. Come on now, be honest, you know what I’m talking about here, don’t you? I mean you’re not really averse to getting something for nothing, are you? You know, supporting taxing the hell out the “rich” so that you can get a break on your health care and stuff like that. Oh, by the way, now that I broached the subject of taxes, let’s talk about how taxes really work, OK? Now don’t forget, Taxes are power, i.e., more taxes equals more power and less taxes equals less power. So, if you want more power, how do you do it? Well let’s look at how they did it in Indiana. They latched on to the idea of imposing a “sin tax” on cigarettes as a win-win situation because increasing taxes on cigarettes would reduce consumption and improve the general health and the increased revenue from the “sin tax” would be used to establish a program to provide health care for underprivileged children. Now who could be against something like that? Bear in mind now, the Flim Flammers don’t do bad things by advocating bad things, like taxing cigarettes to get more money to increase their power, oh no, they always wrap their Flim Flamming around something glorious, like providing health care for needy children. So, let’s think this through to the logical end. A big tax increase is imposed on cigarettes and the result is indeed a reduction of cigarette consumption. Let’s say they impose a really large tax (like the American tea tax that shifted tea consumption to coffee consumption during the revolution) and cigarette consumption went to effective zero. What happens to the underprivileged child health care program? Do you really think the program will be stopped because of the loss of cigarette tax revenue? Not hardly. You will be taxed to continue the program because who could be for stopping the health care program for underprivileged children. Brothers and Sisters, we have been Flim Flammed into a situation where there is no good solution and we did it to ourselves because we voted for a new tax that increased the power over us and we did it willingly because we thought we could get something for nothing by taxing the despicable cigarettes and their addicted multitudes to pay for child health care that we really didn’t want to pay for ourselves. In short, we enabled the Flim Flammers. But I digress. A word about Flim Flammers might be in order about now. Most people think Flim Flammers use deception and trickery (see above cigarette tax discussion) to affect a dishonest gain from unsuspecting and sometimes cognitive challenged people. The truth is, Flim Flammer use their deception and trickery to target dishonest people (that would be us All-American electorate) because dishonest people are amenable to the suggestion that cheating other people for gain is acceptable (we cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you). This dishonest attribute makes us easy prey, because it’s not too difficult for a cleaver person (Politician) to orchestrate situations that will appear to the dishonest that they are getting something for nothing. When we listen to, believe and vote for Politicians who tell everyone that they are going to reduce taxes and increase benefits for all, well now, we are enabling the power hungry Flim Flammers because we actually believe their tripe that we are going to get something for nothing. How can we continuously be so stupid? It one thing for the Slugs of society to work the system to get all they can get from the productive citizens because they are simple thieves, but it is quite another thing when good, basically honest and hard working people succumb to the notion that it is alright to get something for nothing. Somehow greed has been turned into a virtue by the Flim Flammers because why else would we think that getting 20 and 30% interest on our money while everyone else is getting 1.2% is because we are so cleaver and not because we are stupid enough to actually buy into a Ponzi scheme with our hard earned money. When the current economic situation cascades into an awful depression as I have predicted, don’t go blaming the Flim Flammers because, Brothers and Sisters, we are the very ones that enabled the Flim Flammers to bring ruin upon our heads, not anyone else.