If Republicans got their Way …

sounds like the script for an extremely frightening movie, something that would even put the recent film, “The Road” to shame.

As recently as the 1990s, there was money to be made in common stocks, bonds, and real estate. Over the last decade, please consider the following:

1-The stock market has declined (the Dow closed yesterday at 10,303.15 which compares with a close of 11,722.98 on January 14, 2000.

2-The current long-term treasury composite rates on August 13th for treasuries not callable within the next ten years was 3.56%.  Two million dollars in such instruments would produce just slightly over $70,000/year, a third of which would be required to purchase private health insurance for a family, if it could be purchased at all.  Otherwise, one injury or illness could potentially obliterate the entire amount, or someone would have to go without needed medical care to preserve these funds, a horrific choice.

3-We are all familiar with the current status of our real estate market. Despite the rosy pronouncements of great deals to be had, the real estate market will not turn around until more people have more money in their pockets, along with sufficient confidence to make such long-term financial commitments. When and how will this be achieved?

The only remaining source of increased wealth for the moneyed interests is foreign lands and us. Regarding the latter, we continue to witness the development of complicated, misleading schemes designed to ultimately transfer money from our pockets to theirs, a process that is currently working according to plan. We continue to represent some value to them until this process is complete. At that point, we become expendable, a living form of excess baggage.

In this horror flick, the very few comprising the ruling class would regard everyone else in the same way that farm animals have traditionally be treated in this country. They would begin by sending our armed troops to our homes, holding us at gunpoint as everything of value was taken from us.

Even those of us who had guns and attempted to use them would quickly be disabled by exotic weapons (remember the story about the weapon the military was testing that induced excruciating, incapacitating pain a few months ago?), and tortured and/or deleted as the ruling authorities determined appropriate.

Of course, immediately draining all of our bank and brokerage accounts would be a simple matter, taking possession of any and all funds held by various financial services companies. There would be no need for Social Security, whether public or privatized, since those funds would be confiscated.

Some of us would be allowed to live another day if we could conclusively demonstrate that we were contributing more to our master’s bottom line than we required to survive. Any birth defects, sickness, injury or other expensive complication would be dealt with swiftly, in much the same manner as a race horse who becomes injured, an oxen who can no longer pull a plow or a dairy cow whose production has begun to decline. Life as it existed in the Nazi death camps would become the new reality for all but the privileged few.  

Of course, the Republican zombies all assume that they will be allowed entry into that exclusive club that comprises the “fortunate” elite.  With most of the human race wiped out, there would be less pressure on dwindling natural resources, perhaps allowing the few remaining humans for perpetuate the species for much longer than would have otherwise been the case, perhaps for several more centuries.  

The preceding is absolutely horrifying, however, we can comfort ourselves in the knowledge that this is only a movie, and one that hasn’t even been produced yet, as far as we know.

Although many titles for such a horror flick could be considered, perhaps the most descriptive might be:  “Cheney’s Wet Dream.”