Here. You do the assembling.
1) From James Pethokoukis: “The Obama Boom”: disposable income adjusted for inflation fell 0.1% in Sept., after -0.3% in July, -0.4% in August.
2) From Rush Limbaugh: Entry into the “Top 1%”? $343,000 annual salary.
Are you trying to say everyone’s income is falling, even the income of the wealthy? I don’t believe it, because Obama told me the rich are getting richer, and he wouldn’t lie.
Wait, I thought the top 1% were all millionaires. Rush must be wrong.
extortively redistributive clusterfuck
So the banks and states are preparing to claw-back some flesh from the hides of Franklin Raines, James A. Johnson, Jamie Gorelick and their ilk? Oh. Not. Damn.
I propose a name-the-era contest. Clearly we’re deep into post-postmodernism and when shit all breaks down, big things are gonna happen that will define what’ll soon be hindsight.
Postlibertarianism? The Predillusionary? Epoch of Maggots? The Sociodemocidali? The Mendacitorian?
Fred.
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Oh, I get what you mean now. Um….
The O Fugue.
The Obamazoic Decline.
The Mass Wealth Extinction Event
Mors tua vita mea.
De Victoria Mustelas.
Leviathan Unbound
The Orwellian Age
The Neomarxian Cataclysm
Say, are these eras created or saved?
Fallout 3.
Year One.
The Funk
RAAAAACIST!
The chicken roost era.
We are so totally fugued.
The Not-So-Great Depression.
The Gelded Age.
Actually, I am kind of partial to “The Mass Wealth Extinction Event”, per #8. “Leviathan Unbound” ain’t too bad either.
The Era of Deconstruction.
The Age of Scandal (1972-present)
and the $343k isn’t as interesting to me as the $75k threshold to the top ten percent of income earners.
I put it together, and this is what I came up with.
smoke the pot eat the chicken