Protestant work ethic? Meh. Dead white males, old documents, conservatism.
A permanent Democrat client state run by a byzantine, inefficient Brazil-like bureaucracy and peopled with a soul-dead perpetual victim class of khaki-clad drones collecting “wages” stolen from a dwindling number of remaining free taxpayers? Now we’re talking!
link?
Inigo Montoya called. He said something about that word “wages” and what progressives think it means.
Link.
http://m.cnbc.com/id/41969508
A land settled with black powder and tomahawk, collapses under weight of obese welfare system.
Wait! Michelle Obama knows what to do about obesity. Something about getting moving. It’s just dumb enough to work.
In light of this disturbing figure, and the reality that it can do nothing but increase as the baby-boomers retire, is it any wonder why our economy has stagnated? Why there’s no real, lasting productive economic growth? Imagine what will happen to the actual economy if Obama succeeds in implementing even more welfare-state programs.
What had been hailed by all of the globalists, the likes of Bush the elder and Billy Jeff to name a couple of the more high-visiblity ones, as our “new” economic production, intellectual property and exotic financial derivative markets don’t really produce as much lasting prosperity as we’ve all been led to believe. This is a problem that only real entrepreneurial innovation will solve.
So it seems, the only upside of this report is it validates, in part, one of the underlying tenets of what was hailed during 2008 an the “trickle-up” effect central to “Obamanomics”. The downside is that it validates Obamanomics at all. Especially since the central tenet of Obamanomics is the redistribution of wealth.
In other words, for Obamanomics to work, we have to structure our economy like Great Britain or France, for instance. And look how great that’s worked out for them…
I rest my case. Increasing government spending, as a percentage of GDP, always leads to overall economic decline in the long run. That’s a documented fact.
But, you know, Medved says it’s mainstream.
I can hear Olbermann crying for the 99ers now!
The wages of big government is debt.
“The wages of big government is debt.”
That’s deep, man…
The wages of philosophy is depth.
Also the wages of a broken water pipe…
Ya mean like a plumber or some thing? They do make a pretty good wage.
The wages of sin is a bad reputation and too many friends.
So… correct me if I’m wrong, but it would seem that the situation is worse than those numbers make it appear.
For instance, just to slap some arbitrary numbers on it, let’s say the ‘handouts’ are $2T/yr, making the total of all ‘wages’ around $6T/yr. Meaning the actual productive work was worth around $4T/yr. But since the ‘handouts’, by their very nature, did not produce any wealth, that $2T was taken, not from a $6T pie, but from the $4T of actual produced wealth.
There’s double-counting going on. The ‘handouts’ represent 50% of the actual pie; they don’t make it a larger pie.
(*) Though it’s possible that the phrasing is misleading. Perhaps there is a $6T pie of productivity, $2T of handouts, and the total “wages + handouts” is really $8T.
What about the wages of Zinn?
I am Tuttle!
Dunno about the wages of Zinn, but the wages of white Zin is a slight buzz. And raaaaacism.
I’m pretty sure it’s taken from $N trillion of future production, John. If it were taken from current production, people might notice and get upset about it. Far better to give free shit to today’s voters, and leave tomorrow’s voters to fend for themselves.
The wages of broccoli is stench.
Pull my finger…
Yeah, but Squid yesterday’s free shit is on today’s bill and today’s shit is awaiting input from the union clerk after her mandated 15 minute yoga break.
Point being that only in the first year is the can 100% kicked down the road in this scenario of yearly calculations of the delta of welfare state increases yearly. The compoundedness of the can kicking still needs to be baked into the cake in each subsequent year. It is a depressant not stimulus.
So, it would need a coefficient for drag. Too bad Rahm booked for Boystown…
You mean promises made yesterday affect the resources available today? Poppycock! I was told there was a lockbox!
Under water prairies, caverns
Filled with cowboys
That smoke cigs.
Stepping on the cigs
That the cowboys
Smoke, they scrunch.
The cowboys howl, bare
Their twangs, dance,
Tumbleweeds in the
Gusting wind,
Dusty, dry belts
Glistening in the blue.
..well, I’m ready for the poetry slam.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/07/02/070702on_onlineonly_obama#ixzz1G8MXmnBS
My daughter claims that free verse ain’t poetry. She hosts a site of young manga writers who also dabble in poetry.
Thanks for linking the Apes again as I wanted to show it to her. She didn’t believe that he could actually write that badly and I wasn’t about to google “apes and Obama.”
As for the poetry slam…. I’d suggest haiku as standard internet form, but that would be unfair to the cowboy poets in Las Vegas since they operate on proggy grants from the government for the wasteful spending and probably can’t count and because Harry Reid shoots horses.
Real cowboys can haiku. On the dole cowboy poets are not cowboys. Cowboys need to stick to yodeling.
Little old lady who?
I laid the little old lady too!
Twas a little old tranny eeewww.
no more yodeling
You guys are killing me here!
HOW much for the third drink!?!!
My daughter claims that free verse ain’t poetry.
It seems a whole lot of what gets called poetry these days isn’t, and is in fact, antithetical to what I would consider poetry.
Poetry is supposed to have form and structure. It should have rhyme, rythm, meter, something. Some poetic structure. If it doesn’t, it’s prose.
It doesn’t really matter IMO if it seems cryptic, emotionally evocative, or emotionally masturbatory or voyeuristic. If it’s evocative prose, it’s still prose.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_poetry
Prose poetry, is poetry written in prose instead of using verse but preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery and emotional effect.
This is fucking moronic. As in oxy.
Because, see: http://www.bing.com/Dictionary/search?q=prose&FORM=DTPDIA
PROSE
1. (N) language that is not poetry: writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without the rhythmic or visual line structure of poetry
Poetry without rythm (or any other sort of poetic sort of structure) is like “music” without any rythm (or time signature, harmony, syncopation, etc. or any other musical structure).
And if music without any musical structure can be considered music, then I can belch, or drop a wrench, and call it music. In which case music is meaningless because it’s synonymous with noise. It just means “sound”.
‘Heightened imagery’ and ’emotional effect’ are completely subjective. A dog turd can have ’emotional effect’. In that sense, Dada’s urinal is a poem.
And if I knew jack shit about art shit I suspect it’s in fact the same thing. But at least Dada seemed to know what he was doing and did it on purpose, he wasn’t just a lazy ignorant dumbass pumping his own ego over his half-assed mediocrity.
poetry
prose
poetry prose
could you
call it a
circle jerk of
literary proportions
Yes Yes you could
Stephanie, you appear to be Channeling Louis Cook of “Clouds and Shrouds” fame.
Never read “the Fountainhead.” Don’t know why. Quick google-fu refers to C&S as a proem. Truthy.
Poetry, prose…?
Well I suppose
It’s just a way to fake
A poetry pose.