About a quart low myself
As someone once said, this is not helping my children:
I personally am not horribly disturbed by the failure of the bailout bill. I keep hearing that it’s to save the financial system that underpins America’s capitalist society, but if so, why then is it so socialist?
I say let the markets work it out. If people go bust, they go bust. Too bad. I’m teetering on the edge of bust, personally. There’s nothing in the current discussion for me, for my kids or grandkids, for my mama. Why are any of them expected to help out some dipstick who can’t figure out an ARM?
Because the votes of dipsticks are highly coveted. Next question, please.
paulsmos »
30 September 2008 · 4:24 pm
These aforementioned dipsticks always seem to be the poor melanin challenged and toothless caucasoids. I say tough noogies if you can’t own a house. Work hard and scrimp and save like everybody else. Stop with the class envy crap,too. I’m working my ass off to have a better house/healthcare et cetera. Nobody handed me shit. Remember the other man’s ass is always cleaner. Take a damn bath and shut the hell up…..pussy.
CGHill »
1 October 2008 · 8:50 pm
In which case, you might like this:
[W]e could alternatively think of society of a welfare state as consisting of four concentric circles. The innermost circle consists of various welfare recipients, and the next circle around it consists of social workers in many guises whose livelihood depends on the existence of this welfare and its recipients. The next large circle are the taxpayers who pay for all this, providing welfare for the welfare state bureaucrats. The outermost, sparse circle consists of the rulers and guardians who maintain this system and ensure that it will never change. We could ask what future there can be for a society in which all serious and important discussions ultimately boil down to pointing out how some people are unable to manage even the most basic aspects of their lives, so they just always break stuff and are a constant drag on others. This arrangement sustains itself because it appeals to the maternal instincts of people and their need to feel superior to others, plus the fact that it is easy to understand people who are simpler than you.