I am Just a Peep

There seems to be a view in the White House that the people of our country are clueless.  You can get a sense of this from reading some of the emails between the staff and the Democratic National Committee.  Just for one example, some of them call the voters "peeps" a term of endearment the signifies the belief that they can be lead around like little chickens who follow any shiny object.  So, people with that attitude can spend money anyway they think is a good idea, and not necessarily what the peeps think is good.  These are two examples:

1.  The U.S. Is going to pay Laos $900 million to help eradicate bombs that were dropped before most of the population of peeps was conceived.  These are to correct a problem that most of the peeps did not even know about, and certainly did not care about.  These 2,000,000 tons of ordinance were dropped during the Viet Nam war, which almost nobody from this generation remembers.  Perhaps we should pay the Japanese for all the bombs that were dropped on them.  The circumstances were the same for both.

2.  The U.S paid a ransom for hostages of $400,000,000 tax-payer money.  Today's Wall Street Journal says that number was really $1.3 billion, so that number was lower than the White House said.  We have a national policy of not paying for hostages but the peeps would never know since it was to be accounted for by a trick of deception over money "owned" to Iran.  We spent millions getting our hostages back, but we owed them money.  The peeps would never know that period anyway, since most of them were not born then.

Underestimating the American public is something politicians frequently do, especially when they think of them as peeps.  There are days, like ones when I see the "man-in-the-street" segments where they ask the person about the President's speech last night and they ramble on for 5 minutes about a speech that was never given.  If you asked their opinion, they will tell you, even when they are wrong.  In neither of these cases did they ask anyone if it was a good idea to spend tax-payer money on something so ridiculous.  Did I mention brining in 85,000 more Syrian refugees?  It is offensive to me to think that any elected official could do these kinds of things with my tax dollars, but then I am just a peep.