The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

In the Land of Equal Opportunity we all love a good success story, a pull-yourself-up-from-the bottom mythology, a rags-to-riches saga ready made for Netflix. Something to give hope to those without, dreams for the downtrodden, possibilities for the impoverished. Thank god for the Trumps! All you need to rise to the top in America is, well, frankly, to be born at the top. The Donald claims to be a self-made man, a brilliant deal-maker, a real estate developer without parallel. You could do the same … if you had a brain as big as his.

It should give us all hope. Start out with a few measly millions and you too could parlay that into even more millions. In fact you could do pretty well just investing in Treasury bonds and sitting back while the interest accrues year after compounding year. Try that with a car payment, rent due and a job that pays minimum wage. A job that year after year makes less as inflation eats up your earnings.

It’s a pretty myth, the bootstrap, Horation Alger story. Too bad it’s bogus. Check the ranking of America in the world when it comes to rising up in income. Sort of like checking our rank in health care. Or education. We can crow that we’re #1 but only if you don’t bother checking the statistics. What we’re #1 at is creating billionaires. The rest of you, good luck. Play the Lottery, pal, but if you think you’re going to start down near the bottom and end up with your very own Trump Tower, well, dream on if it gives you hope.

Ivanka thinks the poor should eat cake. Or Big Macs. She thinks socialism will kill the American Dream. She thinks she’s the poster babe for hard work and earned success. The rest of the folks who talk about raising minimum wage obviously want a free handout. If they could, they’d take welfare instead. Marie Antoinette couldn’t have said it better. The mobs are lazy, the mobs deserve what they get. The mobs just don’t have what it takes to be successful. On that last point, I have to agree.

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