If Ayn Rand came to Cheboygan

Those guys those wannabe pirates, I think they were victims of one of those get rich quick schemes. Remember this guy who used to have those late night commercials where he drove up to his hundred room mansion in his streak of lightning car full of hot and willing babes and looked at the camera and told those poor schlubs watching crap tv at one in the morning that for a few bucks he would teach them all how to be rich like him, and it didn’t even take that much time.

Used to be a lot of guys like that, and as I recall most of the money was in real estate where you did, well The American Dream, you bought cheap and you sold dear. Actually reality was pretty close to that a few years ago when you could buy anything dear on borrowed money, and then sell even dearer, and the only thing you had to know was to get into a chair before the music stopped.

Don’t see those guys on late night tv anymore, I think most of them are in the slammer, and those emails that used to flood your inbox along with the ones about making your dick bigger, but most of them are caught in those classy new spam filters anymore. Actually I think most of those spammers were suckers who bought into some get rich quick guy who told them to send out millions of emails, and since they read in the papers that these guys sending out millions of emails were getting rich, they figured it must be true.

Well Americans used to dream big my friend, and now they don’t anymore. Probably the fault of Obama.

That thing the lumber companies did in Michigan, I’m sure you know the railroads did that big time all across the great plains. The Great American Desert it was called way back before the government gave the railroads huge parcels of it just to lay their rails, and then the railroads discovered this theory that it was only desert because nobody was farming it. Their latest scientific theories proved beyond a doubt that you and your neighbors had only to begin farming it and the heavens would open and pour down sweet rain. And what was a good citizen to do, believe the captains of industry who held out The American Dream, or some crabby commie?

Much of that land is empty today and there is talk of emptying whole states and turning them back to buffalo state parks. For some reason the people who live there, the ones who aren’t in line for getting a pile of their money for their land, are all agin it. As a good democrat though, I am all for it, empty out that whole tier from Oklahoma to North Dakota, and toss in that mini triangle of evil, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, and then we liberals can drive out there in our limousines and admire the wild buffalo as we spread brie on our wafers.

Oh my, what is this? They are shoving money down Beagle’s throat. The same grim fate suffered by the welfare queens and the disability kings, and it appears that, aside his complaining about it in a blog that nobody reads, he is to be letting it happen.

I don’t know why Ayn didn’t write something into her novels about her coming back after her death. That would keep those backsliding libertarians in line. Why doesn’t Beagles become a music star, follow up on one of those schemes he mentions from time to time, invent Reardon Steel, set up a humble, but proud, fish stand by the side of the road?