If I told you about a country where the head of its spy agency became Vice President during the reign of a right-wing movie star who was succeeded by said Vice President who, though deposed after a left-wing revolution, arranged for his idiot son to become President in a rigged election which was decided in a state where the idiot son’s brother was Governor, and which disputed election was decided by judges appointed by the father, you’d have to assume this country was very close to the equator.
I go on to tell you that the idiot son was completely in the sway of a nefarious military contractor who, as head of a vice-presidential search committee, nominated himself, and then went on to wage a war largely sub-contracted to the last organization on his resume, a war in which intelligence was falsified, coverage suppressed, and diplomacy ignored. During this war, kidnapping, torture, and mass murder took place, all of which was denied by the President and the Vice President despite all evidence to the contrary.
When I tell you that this President left office with his country in ruins, you’re not surprised. Its military is wasted, civil defense non-existent, roadways a wreck, public transport in crisis, energy supplies endangered. There is no public health insurance, poor education, and corruption is rampant. So you’re not shocked to hear that the economy of this country is in a complete state of collapse.
But this is my country, brother. So if you want to know why I’m not giving any discounts, you better ask yourself why I’m not raising my prices, because this shit costs. Deflation? Give me a break. I'd rather give you a free sandwich once in awhile and think of it as an investment. What makes you think we’re immune to inflation, like any other monkey-shit republic? As people hoard cash, it has less and less value. After all, money unspent is worthless. Consider the prime-lending rate. And consider what usually happens down in those equatorial economies, once a place is stripped of its resources and its treasury, pillaged. People don't think much of its money.
