Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader, who was already feeling a little melancholy today, just did something sure to raise the spirits of any mortal human. He read this post of Skippy’s.

As usual, Skippy is thoughtful, cogent, and objective. (Not to mention a fine writer with a free-flowing style that makes your Maximum Leader jealous. Damn him.)

While it may be overstating it to say that since the dawn of the industrial age the world has depended on the US Dollar for support, it is true that the US economy keeps the rest of the world’s economies going. At what point will the fiscal recklessness that in endemic to our political system cause the complete meltdown of the world economy?

Neither candidate has a plan (or even the thought of having some advisors get together over coffee at the corner Starbucks to make up some platitudes about a plan) to address the real, growing, problem with entitlements in this nation.

And what really can be done? The social programs in question have created dependant classes of people who vote for those giving out the dole. As time goes on it will take a significant number of politicians to go to heroic (and your Maximum Leader is talking Homeric heroic) lengths to save us from the impending crisis. Those hypothetical politicians-cum-statesmen will all lose their careers doing it. Assuming they can pull it off at all.

And that thought, loyal minions, is just enough to put your Maximum Leader over the top today in overwhleming feelings of dread. He will now turn off the internet and drown his apprehensions in superhuman amounts of Scotch wiskey.

Carry on.