I'm not talking specifically about fuzzy rats, the kind that live in sewers or your basement. I'm talking about the rats that infest our government, businesses, states, towns, counties, or about anywhere that offers them a chance to feed off the system. Yeah, rats, and we've got lots of them running around in this country . . . and they're eating us out of house and home. Literally. If this is starting to sound like an attack on our give-away entitlements programs, forget it. That's just chickenfeed compared to what the biggest rats are eating up. I'm talking bloated government, top heavy administrations, greedy corporations, wasteful national defense programs, duplication of function, and even Congress itself. Want to kill the rats? Yeah, let's do a wholescale extermination of them all. And just how would we do this?
Let's look at our government as the managers of the house we live in, and that would be our country and the society within it. It's a big house, room for lots of rats, and they've moved in big time. Even though it's not our biggest problem, entitlements are part of the rat problem. Big business is part of the rat problem, and a big segment of our population is part of the problem. Something like one in four Americans work for government one way or another, and that's a rat problem. As caretakers of this big house, our landlords so to speak, the government has done as shitty job of controling the rat population. I'd be more critical of them, but you can't put a ratty proprietor in charge of getting rid of rats in the house. That's like hiring Jesse James as a bank guard. Even if the house finally gets so eaten away that it falls down, the rats won't be exterminated. Should the house catch fire and burn to the ground, the rats won't burn with it. They'll just pull back and wait on a new house to go up, and they'll move right back in. That's the way it is with rats. They're hard to kill.
You've heard the expression that rats will abandon a sinking ship, but that's not quite true. Some experts, those people in the know about things like this, are saying that we're already a sinking ship, but the rats and still here. If the ship finally sinks, the rats will abandon it . . . but not in time. The best place to abandon a sinking ship is in port, not out to sea. Rats can swim, but they can't swim forever, and a ship sinking in a big ocean means the rats will all perish. The problem with that is: the ship is lost, as is almost everyone aboard it. We haven't been smart enough to build a ship with lots of life rafts, so if the ship goes down, so do we. Well, maybe. Like with all ships that sink, there's usually some survivors. These will be the people who build a new ship, one with lots of cats on it.
Our house is still a fairly solid structure, despite the claims of some experts who think it's too far gone to save. But the folks who like to tear down the old house and build a new one neglect the fact that rats will still be out there, waiting on a new and better place to feed off of. You have to kill the rats to make a new house work, or you'll be building a new one every so often to keep the rats happy. Want a rat free house, or one with so few rats that they're not much of a problem? We need cats, baby . . . lots of cats. You can call the cats "Moses kitties," 'cause they led us out of the wilderness by freeing us of a plague of rats. The cats will also clean up most of the snakes, an added benefit. And all will be well for a while . . . 'cause cats do eat birds too, you know.
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