Living in the bluest of environments, I am surprised to see and hear little celebration regarding the Obama victory. The metro fish wrap is celebrating, but there’s no buzz on the street.

I keep my comments regarding Obamacare strictly financial. How do you pay for it? Press this question button a few times and even the most loyal Obamabot soon exhibits a glimmer of recognition. But the Obamabots still hope that “it’s elephants all the way down.” The Obama scheme rests on rich people, who stand on rich people, who stand on rich people. It’s rich people all the way down.

People want their kids to succeed. But people are getting the idea that the country is eating the seed corn that might have provided the harvest for future years.

One time an African pastor was preaching in my church, on Psalm 126:

5 Those who sow in tears
will reap with songs of joy.

6 He who goes out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with him.

Why, he asked, are the sowers weeping? Shouldn’t they be happy in the springtime, rejoicing in the act of planting?

Modern people such as Americans, he said, cannot understand this weeping. At the end of the dry season, he said, the village people have no food left. They have only their seed grain. The children are hungry, the parents are weeping for the hunger of their children. The parents could feed the children the seed grain, but then the community would starve and die. So the parents weep as they sow, for their children, even as they know that they will rejoice, finally, in the harvest.

The socialists hate the rich. The socialists envy the rich, and especially they envy the desires of the rich. This mimetic rivalry is at the foundation of what the Democrats are doing. Socialists desire the destruction of their rivals, and the destruction ultimately requires the destruction of capital and the rules governing capital. Alcee Hastings understands this. Detroit understands this. You can’t eat envy, but apparently it’s more desirable than food, at least as long as you can still squeeze some food from the rich.

A lot of parents have been saving seed to plant for their children, hoping to send them to college or launch them in some way. I see a lot of anxiety now, as if the parents know that someone sold them blighted seed. Or the parents bought the seed from the companty store, and they owe the store all the proceeds of the harvest.

Expect a plunging birth rate:

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1423/home-for-the-holidays-boomeranged-parents