The Trouble With "Capitalism"

Sooner Or Later, You Run Out Of Other Peoples' RepublicsSo I'm sitting down to dinner in Austria one evening (this was a few months back), and my business colleagues are all at the same table, and this one guy I worked with (I'll call him "Chris," since that's his name) starts going off about Taiwan. He's Australian, but a big fan of China, since he's an avid socialist and what-have-ya. And he's all, China has every right to be hacked off about Taiwan, because how would we feel if the Japanese had taken over Hawaii in World War II, and never given it back?
Interesting question. I know, right? I mean, first off, we'd be back to the whole "birther" thing with President Obama, who, thanks to Donald Trump having the temerity to ask for it, has provided a birth certificate showing he was born in Hawaii. (Now, that birth certificate does raise some other interesting questions, like how come it lists him as born in a hospital that didn't change its name to the one listed until after his birth, and all, but only a radical capitalist, business owner, Republican, one-percenter, regular-bather, bitter clinger, or Tea Partier would even THINK about that, let alone mention it, let alone in print.)
So if the Japanese had Hawaii, why, we'd have a foreign-born president, and some narrow-minded people (like the framers of the Constitution) would be all up in his face about it. So, good thing that never happened, right?
But then I hear on the radio contraption, a few days ago, President Obama making a speech IN Hawaii, where he was definitely born, and where we all saw him go for vacation, and which is definitely one of these-here fifty-seven (according to him) United States of America. And reports indicate he knew he was in Hawaii. But in the speech, he goes, "Here in Asia...". And I'm like, why would he say that?
Finally, it dawned on me that the president does, indeed, have a grand plan for fixing the mess we're in, and you Obama-fans are to be heartily congratulated for knowing this erudite leader would be smart enough to solve it all. He isn't borrowing mountains of cash from China... no! He's selling off unneeded portions of the U.S. to the Peoples' Republic! Starting with Hawaii. Which is why Hawaii is now part of Asia, which is why the president said that, probably!
If anyone would know whether or not we really needed Hawaii, it'd be the president, who is documented officially to have been absolutely born there. And probably, that wasn't an expensive taxpayer-funded vacation he took, but a fact-finding mission, or perhaps even an international real estate showing. Anyway, if he knows we don't really need it, why NOT sell it to China (or, at the very least, sell them a huge national time share), and use the proceeds to get everybody here onto government entitlement programs? Huh? Beats workin'!
Once you understand the grand plan, you can see it at work wherever there are unneeded portions of America being offered in the president's global rummage sale. We give a big chunk of southern Arizona to the Mexican drug cartels, and maybe we get our guns back, fast-and-furious. We give Brazil good deep-water drilling rights off our southern coasts (we no longer need it for drilling ourselves - meaning, drilling for oil ourselves), and maybe they sell us some gas. And we give the downtown part of each big city to kids who don't want to pay back the student loans they asked for, and maybe they agree to shower.
The point is, we have a lot of debt, so the president knows we're going to have to sell off a lot of unneeded portions of America. But that's a risk he's willing to take. In fact, in a few months, when he's overseas on his post-presidency speaking tour, he'll still be working for an ungrateful America that, outside the mainstream media, never understood what we needed HIM for.
By Michael D. Hume
Michael Hume is a speaker, writer, and consultant specializing in helping people maximize their potential and enjoy inspiring lives. As part of his inspirational leadership mission, he coaches executives and leaders in growing their personal sense of well-being through wealth creation and management, along with personal vitality.
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