My college roommate used to go bonkers about this bit of graffitti we’d pass down the road: a giant "Anarchy" sign (A in a circle) with the word NOW writ large beneath it. "Now!!!" he’d start. "We want our anarchy now! We don’t want to wait! We want it this very minute! Right now! Do you hear? No more waiting," and carry on until I’d punch him.
That’s the first thought that occurred to me when I read this headline in the NYTimes: Bush Says Social Security Overhaul Needed Now
President Bush said Thursday that “now is the time to confront Social Security” to deal with a projected $3.7 trillion, 75-year shortfall and give younger workers the ability to invest some of their contributions into personal accounts.
Bush also promised to send Congress “a tough budget” early next year to hold the line on federal spending. “If the deficit is an issue, which it is, it’s going to require some tough choices on the spending side,” the president told a White House economic conference.
I’m starting to think Jon Stewart’s writing staff has one of the easiest jobs in the country. "If the deficit is an issue" (because, you know, we’re perfectly willing to say it doesn’t matter if you’ll buy that).
“It’s not going to be easy,” Bush said. “It turns out (congressional) appropriators take their title seriously.”
"It turns out…" (translation: I’ve just realize we have appropriators, and had I given a rat’s patootie about the deficit in my first term, I would have realized sooner what they’re supposedly there for.)
It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so scary.
awwwwww… it’s my own personal thread! Thanks, Mr Underscore! 🙂
This is from Today’s Papers in Slate, via TAPPED:
“The LAT’s lead also flags Vice President Cheney saying the administration supports more tax cuts, which the paper notes “some analysts said could deepen the budget deficit.”
In a related story, some mathematicians say 2 + 2 = 4, and some hydrologists allege that water is wet.
Oy. This is an extreme example, but they do this all the time. I am sure it will lead to a very well-informed public debate about social security.
In a related story, some mathematicians say 2 + 2 = 4…
Yeah, some of them say that, but how many of them can prove it?
If more tax cuts are enacted and Social Security gutted, I want anarchy “right now, do you hear, no more waiting!”
Your roomate sounds like kind of like Giblets.
Giblets doesn’t want anarchy, he wants a Gibletopia in which everybody worships Giblets.
Silly.
awwwwww… it’s my own personal thread! Thanks, Mr Underscore! 🙂
My pleasure, Anarch-y.
😉
Thank you, Katherine, for
on-target humor (my favorite
kind, though frankly, i’ll take what i can get.)
Anyone reading this interested in talking about how we get from here (plutocracy) to there (anarchism: no polisocially enforced power-over)?