That’s unusual advice. After all, the comic films always have titles like “Eat the Rich,” on the assumption that rich people are over-indulged, weak, and helpless before the united might of the virtuous poor.

What a crock.

First of all, how do you think the rich got rich? By being smarter and tougher than the useless poor, that’s how. Mess with the rich and you’re going to get major trouble. The Cypriots have just been forced by the Northern Euroweenies to confiscate 40% of the money deposited in their banks. Almost all of the money is owned by the Russians, primarily the Russian Mafia and the Russian apparatchiks (same thing, of course). Watch what happens. The army of the Volga is about to descend on the gnomes of Zurich and Madame Lagarde. Vladimir Putin is not about to play Mr. Nice Guy when his moolah is at risk. The Euroweenie armies are a pathetic joke – the Girl Scouts could defeat them. And we in the US are going to look up at the sky, whistle tunelessly, ignore our NATO obligations, and surreptitiously smirk while the Europeans get just what they deserve.

We are actually going to use the same technique with respect to the long-term unemployed right here in the good old US of A. Who are the long-term unemployed? Not terribly surprisingly, they are disproportionately represented among the old farts, say people between 50 and 106, to whom our economy has been paying exorbitant salaries for 30 years to prevent their rioting in the streets.

To a great extent, this is a self-correcting problem. When people get old enough, they die. This means that the period of long term unemployment for old folks has a natural cutoff. Accordingly, all we have to do is wait and the problem will correct itself. And we can help the situation along by allowing Medicare and Medicaid to collapse.

Especially Medicaid. Medicaid recipients have two wonderful properties that render them particularly appealing as screwees. First, they generally don’t vote, being either too sick or too degenerate to bother showing up at the polls. This desirable property is offset to some degree by the fact that their descendents, who are frequently better off than the codgers, have no intention of supporting the old folks themselves. Honor thy father and thy mother. Yeah, right. They’d rather make the Lexus or Beemer payments, so they vote enthusiastically  for any program that will shuffle the inconvenient oldsters more rapidly toward their destined roles as fertilizer or weiner filling.

Second, the Medicaidants don’t have any money! Knowledge is power? MONEY IS POWER! We can direct our vast monetary resources to subvert the popular media, painting Medicaid “clients” as parasites on society, irresponsible leeches who unreasoably resist their appopriate role as the silent downtrodden. How dare they!

So as our strategy unfolds, we will find ourselves in a society pleasantly lacking in poor and old detritus, our personal lives a rich harmony of fancy cars, great restaurants, crummy movies, and all the other things that make life worthwhile.

Of course, at some point we will be old and decrepit ourselves.

I try not to think about that.