My ”life coach” tells me I’m off my rocker.  She says people can’t
afford to take a day off from work.  She says many would be fired, however.  I
remember the Obama folks advising Americans to call in sick on Election Day in
order to get to the polls (as Democrats apparently can’t get their asses out of
bed one half hour early to perform a civic duty?).   
 
I want a general strike.  How about Wednesday, February 18, 2009?  The thought came
into my head when I learned The House of Representatives drank the stimulus
Kool-Aid.  So I’m off my rocker.  It isn’t likely most of my servile countrymen
and women will participate.  Things just
aren’t that bad at the moment and the only people really willing to participate
are already taking the day off as they’ve lost a job. 
 
The people who’ll be most critical of my idea are the ones
who keep telling me nothing will change until the people realize they’ve power
in numbers.  Others tell me the system
would crumble if businesses suddenly refused to collect the withholding tax and
I’m told we haven’t reached the tipping point quite yet.
 
So why do I suggest this now on short notice?  For starters I’ve a lengthy email tree.  Two, I’ve access to something most of you
don’t, which is 4 hours behind a microphone for 5 days each week.  While I can only reach 70-thousand most days I
can say it’s much more than most of you.  And this is the internet age.  Some of you have email trees longer than mine.  And networks through church and civic
organizations and lastly I’ll take your condescending replies because I pose
the question what the heck else can you do right now?  If it doesn’t come off you clearly support critics
claiming most Americans are mindless couch potatoes. 
 
Let me answer a few other critics.  Would you rather wait until July 18 when the
meltdown is complete?  O.K., then you can
wait.  There is nothing like making hay
when the sun shines but I understand the fight-flight reaction.  Would it hurt retailers if you stayed home
and didn’t shop?  Hey, you’ll buy from
these poor souls the following day.  I
would hope they would stay at home too.  Restaurants,
stores and gas stations could all close for the day.  Would it be painful for some?  Yes but no pain, no gain.  As for essential workers, well, have you ever
heard of the blue flu?  I’m sorry but
there would be discomfort and displacement.  It has happened before.  Read the
history of the decades of the late 1700s.
 
So I’m proposing a far fetched thought and you can think I’m
too much Don Quixote but I can’t just watch as my country unravels.  Have you a better idea?  Have you a better date?  Have you a better idea of making the point
without any violence?  Then let me know
or get the out of the way.  Next year at
this time we may not be able to afford such fantastic communication and as we
dig for roots in the forest we may not have any energy for action. 
 
Now I’ve been very polite and wait the rude cackling of the
idealistic left.  The way I see it, this
is a compromise.  The lefties will fare
far worse if this becomes civil war in another year.  Keep your powder dry.