I guess it depends: are you fighting to war to win it? Or are you fighting the war in order to perpetuate the need to fight it — and in so doing, solidifying your own prospects as a poverty fighter?
Until the kinds of morons currently “occupying Wall Street” wake up to the fact that it is government intervention in the markets — combined with a ludicrous “progressive” tax structure — that are prime contributors to economic stagnation, they’ll continue to serve as useful idiot foot soldiers for the very marauders they presume to be agitating against.
As I told one such moron this morning, if you wanted to make yourself useful you could join TEA Partiers in calling for a flat or fair tax, and for reining in the unelected (but politically left) bureaucrats presuming to rule us by dicate.
I’m not holding my breath. Though I probably should, given the nature of the company.
Everyone who gets on the back of the Federal tiger thinks that when they ride it they are in control. Some continue to do so as the jaws close on their neck. “Stupid is as stupid does.”
C’mon, Jeff. Poverty is BIG business in this country. Just depends on how you define “business.”
Heh.
Luap Nor’s rEVOLution on Wall Street? Oy.
Stephen Hayward made a very fine post on F.A. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty and Hayek’s 1961 prefiguring of ObamaCare among other bureaucratically administrative delights of the socialists today.
And from Noemie Emery, a takedown: Overrated
The Democrat Senators voting YEA for ObamaCare, 12/24/2009:
Akaka (D-HI), Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Begich (D-AK), Bennet (D-CO), Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA), Brown (D-OH), Burris (D-IL), Byrd (D-WV), Cantwell (D-WA), Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE), Casey (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND), Dodd (D-CT), Dorgan (D-ND), Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI), Feinstein (D-CA), Franken (D-MN), Gillibrand (D-NY), Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Johnson (D-SD), Kaufman (D-DE), Kerry (D-MA), Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN), Kohl (D-WI), Landrieu (D-LA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Leahy (D-VT),
Levin (D-MI), Lieberman (ID-CT), Lincoln (D-AR), McCaskill (D-MO), Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR), Mikulski (D-MD), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE),
Pryor (D-AR), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Rockefeller (D-WV), Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY), Shaheen (D-NH), Specter (D-PA), Stabenow (D-MI), Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO), Udall (D-NM), Warner (D-VA), Webb (D-VA), Whitehouse (D-RI), Wyden (D-OR)
Since Defeated, Retired or Deceased:
Retiring next Term:
Class I running for re-election:
#5
I could have followed that better if she had bigger boobs.