I worked with a young woman who was a huge Obama fan. What thrilled her most about him was that Europe was going to go back to loving the United States. She liked to travel you see, and I suppose she figured she could finally take the Maple Leaf stickers off her luggage. Hehehe, I don’t recall Clinton in office did much for our nation’s likability either.

I remember once when in Toronto I was listening to some talk radio and they were going on how they found that the ole maple leaf on a backpack did wonders for them when picking up chicks overseas (i.e. the women in furren lands didn’t want Yanks or as the Aussies will say “sepos”). The funniest call was a Canuck who said the best luck he had was when he was mistaken for a Yank.

So, we’ve done bank bailouts, auto manufacturing bailouts, and we have state bailouts. CA is issuing IOUs and will pay them off by the sale of IOUs. Or out and out grants paid for by the taxpayers in the year 2525. This does not even begin to address cap and trade & a health care takeover.

On Special Report this (err last) evening Fred Barnes was apoplectic about CA and said the CA govt. needs to cut its spending and lay off state workers. Juan Williams, almost comically, chided Fred for being so cold. Charles K. defended Fred in asking why govt workers should be exempt from layoff. Krauthammer, was noting circumstances are just so that tax increases are going to be necessary. Either way, via confiscatory taxes or inflation we sill lose wealth.