In the course of a typical day I usually receive at least a couple of e-mails from readers lamenting that America is now the Titanic. This is grossly unfair to the Titanic, a state-of-the-art ship whose problem was that it only had lifeboat space for about half its passengers. By contrast, the USS Spendaholic is a rusting hulk encrusted with barnacles, there are no lifeboats, and the ship’s officers are locked in a debate about whether to use a thimble or an eggcup.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
The USS Spendaholic
Here's a refreshing dose of Mark Steyn to brighten your morning.
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Reading this article was like having cold water thrown in my face. It's even worse than I thought, and I knew it was really bad.
ReplyDeleteBonus question: How “real” and “enforceable” are all those real, enforceable cuts? By the time the relevant bill passed the Senate earlier this month, the 2012 austerity budget with its brutal, savage cuts to government services actually increased spending by $10 billion. More more more, how do you like it?
The situation seems hopeless! Like Mark writes, the press just keep interviewing the various senators and talking heads who give partisan proclamations while nothing gets done. How the hell much worse does it have to get before they act? Maybe there will have to be riots in the streets before something constructive is done by these elected eunuchs.
Maybe there will have to be riots in the streets
ReplyDeleteIt's been tried, but the homeless and the tweakers took over the movement.
SRSLY you just cannot get good rioters anymore. Maybe we can outsource to the ME they seem to have it down.
Andrea True is a real trip. The way she moves, she speaks to me... whispers... Quaaludes™
And here on the planet which claims to be Earth, futures markets are indicated up up up on bailouts and rumors of bailouts...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ReplyDeletelewy, really, though. What can you expect from a bunch of people who call their movement "The American Tahrir Square." Who thinks that a cushy protest job in the US is in any way equal to what protesters face in Egypt?
Or the dude who said it was like the American Tiennenman Square?
People think they are way more awesome than they actually are.
People think they are way more awesome than they actually are.
ReplyDeleteAin't it the truth...
OK I read the Steyn piece and was saddened to learn about Andrea True's recent demise.
She looks awkward and scary in her video, but I like the photo that Rolling Stone ran of her. She looks pretty, and happy, and I'd like to think she felt that way.
I just remembered who said it was the American Tiennenman. Michael Moore.
ReplyDeleteBecause he *knows, y'all. He's smart, and work-y, and all that. He even wears a trucker cap.
*barf*
What can you expect from a bunch of people who call their movement "The American Tahrir Square." Who thinks that a cushy protest job in the US is in any way equal to what protesters face in Egypt?
ReplyDeleteOr the dude who said it was like the American Tiennenman Square?
That part of their equation made me LMAO too, afw. There's no comparison. Ask the 3 American students who were just arrested and released in Egypt last week. They got their a$$es back home toot sweet ;-)
Don't get me wrong, I was sympathetic to the idea of holding wall street greedies accountable.
She looks awkward and scary in her video, but I like the photo that Rolling Stone ran of her. She looks pretty, and happy, and I'd like to think she felt that way.
ReplyDeleteRight on the money, lewy. I'm glad you added that link.
I have sympathies there, too, florrie. I'm just old enough to know that crapping in a park you are illegally camping in doesn't do that. And won't do that.
ReplyDeleteWe can't hold the high level assholes in the private sector without holding the public sector responsible as well. They're too interconnected. Apparently, some people (a) don't want to be a part of any movement that doesn't involve drumming and shitting in public areas, and (b) can't admit that a politician "on their side" might be just as disgusting as the ones on the "other" side. Heaven forbid.
At this point, I pretty much hate everyone. Except my dogs and my cat. They're pretty cool. And more housetrained than the OWS people. They definitely smell better.
The system of (per afw) high level connected assholes (HLCA - now there's a pretty picture) is upping it's game.
ReplyDeletelewy to NYT: who appointed you guys to the politburo, anyway?
ReplyDeleteUnderlying these possible outcomes has been Europe’s persistent inability to address the central weakness of its common currency project: how to get money from the few countries that have it, mainly Germany and the Netherlands, to the many that need it — Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and perhaps even France.
w.t.f.
Mr. Constâncio mentioned the central bank’s bond buying program and making loans available to banks, but he was blunt in saying that unless countries like Greece and Italy followed treaty rules and reduced their budget deficits, there was not much the central bank could do.
ReplyDeleteSounds familiar.
That's one hell of a central weakness, isn't it, lewy? I can't imagine Germany or the Netherlands bailing the rest of them out.
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