Wishing that Christmas Would Never End

NOW THAT OUR CHRISTMAS BREAK is over, and the holidays are ending, we must return to reality, albeit with great regret. Oh that Christmas would last year round....returning to the bleak reality of American presidential politics after the escapist immersion in Christmas just plain sucks...republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, on closer inspection, is even crazier than we might have imagined. Apparently he wants to return the United States to the gold standard, here in the futuristic year twenty sixteen, which would be like returning drivers to Model T's; utterly insane. During the past century the amount of gold in grubby human hands has at least doubled, to over two olympic sized swimming pools full. Meanwhile, however, the amount of good old American currency in circulation has exploded exponentially with the enormous expansion of the economy. Can someone please explain that to Senator Cruz? Soon? There is simoply no way in hell, heaven, or earth that the quantity of available gold can cover the vast amount of money in circulation, which is precisely what the glod standard requires. Ask any high school economics teacher. While you're at it have the good Senator ask any high school chemistry or physics teacher about global warming: he doesn't believe in it, and badly needs to. If you want to pour molasses over the economy, slow it down, seize it up, apply the gold standard, and see it happen. Incredible that anyone would even suggest it, let alone believe it. Didn't Ted Cruz go to Harvard?What gives? didn't they teach him anything at that rinky dink outfit? lest we forget, the two Bush Presidents, either of whom is widely regarded as a paragon of intellectual talent, went to Yale, proving that even the Ivy League has its limits. Seantor and presidential candidate Ted Cruz believes in neither global warming nor evolution, likes the gold standard, wants to end Islmaic immigration to America, and wants to turn the Islamic State into a glowing radioactive mess. Frighteningly, these views are typical of republican presidential candidates, and indeed, of conservative America. Oh, that Christmas would enver end..