The Smiths and Joneses (6 page)

“I’ll repeat, if you, the media, had done your job, I’d never have been President and would never have to have made the decisions I did. Frankly, I blame the media for most of the country’s issues. If the media had been a truly independent fourth estate, they would have informed the public. They would have educated the public that Mr. Obsma couldn’t have run for the office. They should have shut down his campaign before it got started. I also blame the power hungry Democrat party who ran a black person knowing he’d win based on the color of his skin.”

              Sean asks, “Mr. President, do you really believe a civil war would have started if you didn’t allow them to go?”

              “Mr. Obsma laid the foundation for a class and race war. He wanted one. Once such a war started he could call upon the United Nations to put down the war leaving him in a position to rebuild the country. He would have the United Nations behind him, allowing him to gut the Constitution. I remember someone once asked me if I thought Ross Perot would have made a good president, I told them no, but he would have made a good emperor. Obsma ruled as if he was a dictator.”

              Wolf jumps in, asking, “Along those lines, do you have any second thoughts about pulling the United States out of the United Nations? We were a founding member of the organization. Wasn’t pulling out admitting the UN failed?”

              “Wolf, the United Nations did fail, it was established to stop the war. Do either of you know how many wars of some sort or another were fought between 1945 and 2015?”

              “Mr. President, no I don’t, how many were there?”

              “Wolf, over 250! There were more wars after the United Nations was established than before. We paid trillions of dollars into the UN to solve nothing. The United Nations did nothing but provide a stage for every country to skim funds and too bad mouth America. It accomplished nothing. The United Nations was a deep black hole. Countries followed only the regulations they wanted to. The United Nations, like most-progressive ideas, are a good idea IF people are basically good, if people all want the same things. As we all know, people aren’t basically good. People are greedy; they are taught how to work around rules. Take the progressive mantra for gun rights. Guns kill, so guns have to be banned. Chicago and Washington, DC, had the strictest gun control laws in the nation, in fact, there wasn’t a single gun store within the city of Chicago, yet these two cities had the highest number of people killed with guns. Why didn’t they realize it was because guns were outlawed in Chicago? The reason is criminals don’t follow laws, which is why they’re criminals. You on the left never grasped this one simple fact.”

              “Mr. President, the USA was joined by thirteen other nations in walking out of the United Nations, how is this new group working together?”

              “Sean, the Council of the Fourteen which is made up of United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Holland, Switzerland, Canada, Georgia, Guatemala, India, Poland, South Africa, India and Israel, and recently China, making it now the Council of the Fifteen, is working very well. We’re working together as the United Nations should have functioned. We work together to ensure no major wars are fought. An attack against any one of the members will automatically bring the other members in. Our militaries are working together. We’ve standardized on common rifles and other hardware so the logistics of any potential war is much easier. NATO never learned this. Had we ever gone to war against the old Soviet Union we would have had a serious problem in logistics. Each NATO country used a different rifle, different tanks, and different aircraft. None of our military equipment could use the other’s parts. We most likely would have lost the war in Europe.”

              Sean’s face drains of color. He asks, “Mr. President, do you really think we would have lost? If so, I’m sure the Russians knew the problems so why didn’t they ever attack?”

              “Sean, the Russians knew if they attacked and we started to lose we’d resort to nuclear weapons. Once that genie is out of the bottle, it can’t be put back in. A war in Europe would have spread into a full-fledged third world war which would have killed a billion people.”

              Wolf turns to the large screen which shows images of Russia and headlines of newspapers from around the world reporting the death of the Russian President, “Mr. President, what about Russia? When you left office Russia was forming a new government and still held control over most of Europe, there are still rumors that pop up on the web that you had the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Russian Federation President killed.”

              “Wolf, this isn’t some James Bond novel. National leaders don’t give orders to have other leaders assassinated; we don’t have hit teams available to do our bidding, being President isn’t like being a mafia Don. No, I didn’t order them killed. There are laws that forbid any American President from having another National leader assassinated. I have no idea what happened to them.”

              “Mr. President, did you ever find out who caused the destruction of the United Nations building and other assets in New York City? If so, why didn’t you do anything about them?”

              “I thought that event was very clear. The group who was responsible publically claimed responsibility; they committed acts of terror in the LSA, not in the USA. Unless the LSA asked for our help, which they didn’t, it wasn’t our job to find those responsible and bring them to justice. It’s no different from a crime happening in London, unless our help is asked for; it’s none of our business; that is unless the group also threatens USA citizens or assets belonging to the USA or USA corporations and people.” 

              Wolf follows up, “Mr. President, New York City had just joined the LSA, you knew they didn’t have a military, you knew they couldn’t find those responsible. There are many stories that those responsible fled to the USA. Why didn’t you arrest them if they were in the USA?”

              “Wolf, I have no proof they were or are in the USA. Again I’ll say the crime didn’t happen in the USA, we weren’t asked for help by the LSA. It was and remains none of our business.”

              Getting angry Wolf presses his question, “Mr. President, do you know where the terrorists are? If the LSA asked for help would you help arrest them? This crime is a black eye worse than the 9/11 attacks.”

              “Wolf, I’ve been out of office for over ten years. I have no idea where or who these people were. I suggest you have President Bloomberg ask President Paul for help.”

              “I’ll suggest that to him. I think you know who attacked us, and you’re hiding behind an excuse of it’s not my backyard for not helping bring these people to justice.”

              “Wolf, if you want these people brought to justice, why hasn’t the LSA asked for the USA’s help?”

              “I don’t know they we didn’t.”

              “I can tell you that no help was requested while I was President.”

              Sean says, “Mr. President, I’d like to discuss the economy. When you left office, the unemployment rate was higher than the rate in the LSA, how do you explain that your programs worked?”

              “Sean, we counted everyone who was unemployed in our employment numbers. By that I mean, we counted everyone who was out of a job for any reason and those underemployed. In Obsma’s administration they only counted those unemployed who collected unemployment insurance, once someone stopped collecting, they fell off of the system. They were no longer counted. The same carried over to the LSA. The key between us is not the published unemployment rates. The two of us counted differently. It’s not a fair comparison. I suggest you look at the employment ratio. We lowered the rate to be less than 50% while the LSA’s ratio increased to 64% of the population not having a job. We wanted people to be off of government programs; the LSA wanted people to be on government entitlements. Today, twelve years later, our ratio of employed is sitting at 42%. That means 58% of the available workforce is employed. It’s not where the current administration wants it, I know they are working on further tax cuts to stimulate the job market.

“The short answer about the basic difference between our philosophies are, the USA believes everyone should be equal at the starting line; everyone should have an equal opportunity, and the LSA believes everyone should be equal at the finish line.  If everyone is equal at the finish line, you remove all incentives. I don’t believe everyone wins a trophy for just showing up, I play to win, winning isn’t taught in the LSA. There people are rewarded for showing up and trying. They don’t have boys and girls sports teams; they have a single team that everyone plays on. Touch football has a new meaning in the LSA. President Cruise and I tried to remove regulations, to reduce government involvement in people’s lives; the LSA believes in more regulation and a greater involvement in their people’s lives. I used my executive powers to close the EPA, the Department of Education, I broke up the DHS and sent back the surviving departments to other agencies. We removed thousands of hours of regulatory paperwork and bullshit from our companies.” 

Wolf asks, “Mr. President, don’t you think everyone should be treated fairly and the same? Should one class of people be treated differently than others? Shouldn’t everyone pay their fair share?”

“Wolf, I believe everyone should be treated equally; the laws of the land should be applied to everyone the same, it shouldn’t make a difference in one’s upbringing or their income how laws are applied to people. Wolf, the rich in America, did pay their fair share. The top 1% paid more than 60% of the taxes. The ones who didn’t pay their fair share were those on the bottom rungs of the ladder who ate at the government cafeteria and didn’t pay a penny into refilling it.”

Wolf continues, “Mr. President don’t you agree that people’s upbringing shapes their view of how they interact with the world, and different upbringings should have an impact in how laws are applied?”

“Wolf, I don’t agree, I see that reasoning as society making excuses for bad behavior. I see that approach as reinforcing bad behavior and building a society of different classes, one where once in a class it will become impossible to climb out of the class like it is in India. If people come to expect they can get away with a certain type of behavior by claiming their mommy didn’t love them enough, they will push to see how much they can get away with. You will end up with a class of people who know the basic laws of society don’t apply to themselves. You are, in the long term, destroying your own society.”

“Mr. President, this is one of the things this program hopes to explore. I think you’ll find some interesting differences.”

“Wolf, thank you, I am very interested in learning how the LSA has changed over the past twelve years. I admit I’ve never visited the LSA.”

“Mr. President, is there a reason you didn’t visit the LSA?”

Laughing, “I wouldn’t be welcomed there.”

Sean jumps in, “Sir, is there anything else that has caused major differences between the LSA and the USA?”

“Sean, there is one other major issue, the LSA has no military. They know as long as the USA has the world’s strongest military no one is going to take the risk of attacking the LSA for fear their attack may strike the USA, which will cause us to respond massively. The LSA gets the benefit of our 250 billion dollar military budget.”

“Mr. President, on the issue of defense, is it true that the entire US military is being refitted with, for the lack of a better term, with Sci-fi weapons?”

“Sean, if you mean lasers, particle beams and rail guns, the answer is yes. We learned a very nasty surprise when we almost went to war against Russia. Their new rifle and personal armor came as a very nasty surprise. I ordered DARPA to jump quickly over the next generation of systems and move into totally new types of systems that were in the prototype or design stage. We now have the world’s strongest military. We have personal weapons that can cut through the armor on main battle tanks. We have rail guns that can reach beyond the horizon and knockout anything in the sky. We’ll soon have a rail gun that can target and hit objects in space.”

Wolf wants to change the subject, “Mr. President, how has returning to the gold standard helped the US dollar?”

“Wolf, when we returned to the gold standard, our currency became one of the few that was directly tied to precious metals. This gave our currency real value. The dollar was being dropped as the world’s currency for commerce. Shortly after we returned to the gold standard, the dollar quickly returned to its position as the world’s standard. The value of our dollar has increased. We saved our economy and the assets of millions of our people. Since our return to the gold standard, some countries have dropped their own currency and use ours.”

Sean asks, “Mr. President, would you like to comment on the border situation?”

“A country without borders isn’t a country. When I took office, the borders were more porous than Swiss cheese. We had hundreds of thousands of people swarm over the border every year. I agreed with Governor Lawson to build a wall along the Texan border with Mexico. The Russians blew a hole through the wall during their short-lived invasion. The Texans quickly repaired the damage to the wall; Arizona quickly picked up the ball, expanding the wall across their border with Mexico. Since Mexico allowed their country to be used as a staging area, I cutoff all commerce with Mexico; this broke their economy. Mexico as you know broke into ten smaller nations, some controlled by the drug cartels. The USA’s border is secure on our southern line with Mexico. The USA’s border with the LSA is also sealed. The LSA decided to build their own wall to separate our two countries. The LSA decided they wanted to be separated from us. President Cruise and I agreed to allow them to build their wall. If they wanted to be left alone, we would leave them alone. We learned that the LSA also has radio frequency jammers which blocks all signals from the USA. President Brownie wanted to start over without us influencing his new country.”