A dear friend of mine — a dear misguided friend of mine, not only a lefty, but a Bernie Sanders advocate — greeted the news of the final closing of the Trump Taj Mahal casino (which hasn’t belonged to any Trump enterprise since February, when it was purchased by Carl Icahn) with the following lament:
He’d run the country like a business. /shudder
Well, alrighty then.
There are a lot of us out here thinking, “Gee whiz, running it like a business would actually be a plus. Because it sure isn’t being run like a business now, and we’re damn near out of other people’s money as a result.”
Historically, socialism never works. But Gen-X and later don’t read much history. In their defense, their teachers didn’t teach them much practical history to begin with. And these are the people who will be running the country when we’re old and trying to live on whatever scraps the busted Ponzi scheme known as Social Security tosses us.
Scares me.
(Historical reference in title:)