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A story from The Book of the Shortsighted Idiots

by Salunga
Sat Feb 2nd, 2008 at 11:55:32 PM EST

The country as a whole has not seen truly bad times in 70+ years. The 1981 recession was as near as we have come to a depression. Only from greed are we at the brink now. This is a story from The Book of the Shortighted Idiots...

In 1980 a senile old man had a revelation. "My country need not pay its bills" he said. He urged all the people to follow him on his righteous path. His stupid and greedy followers said "deficits don't matter" and they named airports after him to celebrate. They praised his name and and left the bills unpaid. His greedy followers piled debt on top of debt in his honor. "The next generation be damned" they crowed. Some calling themselves W and Dick reveled in the simplicity of the revelation. "Steal from the poor and give to the rich" they said. It is the righteous path. They waged wars on borrowed money. They bought yachts and mansions. They drank expensive wines and said "Greed is good, all hail the senile man."
When the senile man died they mourned him as a king. His stupid and selfish wife cried on his coffin. The senile old man is gone but his legacy survives. Now his country will pay the price. His prideful and stupid country slides into depression. There is no security for the shortsighted as they age. There is nothing left for the damned generations. They have nothing and the country has become weak. Their foreign lenders dictate to them. The damned are bitter and curse the senile old man. The damned generation also curses his stupid and shortsighted followers. Sometimes they sneak in and smother their fat asses as they sleep.
The End
Oh yeah and his greedy and selfish wife is still around to make everybody sick.

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A story from The Book of the Shortsighted Idiots | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Alms for the poor? (4.00 / 8)

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sat Feb 2nd, 2008 at 11:58:09 PM EST

Re: A story from The Book of the Shortsighted Idio (4.00 / 2)

A reading from the gospel according to Salunga. Praise the FSM.

Only thing that still chaps my ass, is that it seems 99.9% of the people in the country (or some outrageous number) are far too rectal-cephalous to understand your most excellent point, or to think through 25 years of fucking history to see the disaster of it.

Fucking Bush II ran explicitly on the Reagan legacy. Fucking told people he would do it just like the clueless man. And people didn't seem to understand what that would mean. I pray for a back-breaking, revolution-inspiring depression. This time, without the wisdom of an FDR to avert a full-scale revolt against global or nationalistic capitalism.

Anyway.

"Have you no sense of decency, sir. At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" -- Boston Attorney Joseph Welch, taking down Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

by BostonJoe on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 01:53:04 AM EST

Re: A story from The Book of the Shortsighted Idio (4.00 / 2)

The prevailing view is that Bush II outdid Reagan in furthering Reaganism. Together they stopped liberal-socialism in its tracts, although some credit must also be given to Clinton.

So why is Ted Kennedy so big on Obama? Memory suggests that we cannot afford another era of Clintonism. When one Democrat charges another with the sin of supporting "single-payer" health care, you can believe that we have not finished sliding backward.

When Ann Coulter said she is supporting Hillary over McCain if McCain is nominated, it was because Hillary is more conservative. And she is.

by shergald on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 08:27:41 AM EST
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Re: A story from The Book of the Shortsighted Idio (none / 0)

I have to look up rectal-cephalous. Um....am I going to find that or should I break it down into two parts. But I hear you its kind of like the whole country has a form of battered wife syndrome and blames themselves for any failing. The people have been brainwashed, only the coming bad times will make them realize that they have been used.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 11:00:16 AM EST
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Re: A story from The Book of the Shortsighted Idio (none / 0)

Completely made up.

Perhaps "butthead." Or a term for "head up one's arse."

"Have you no sense of decency, sir. At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" -- Boston Attorney Joseph Welch, taking down Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

by BostonJoe on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 03:18:44 PM EST
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Reminiscence (4.00 / 2)

Reagan (and Thatcher) were just tools. I remember an interview of George Shultz on Charlie Rose during which he explained how he together with other acolytes had "picked" the current Bush to be the Republican nominee. And that reminded, then, that Reagan, too, had been selected by a cabal of ... I didn't know who exactly those people were at that time. Today, I know. Reagan, Thatcher, just fools who unfortunately managed to fool a lot of us. I don't know which is worse: to be a fool or to be fooled by a fool? We never got to see the man (men?) behind the curtain. It was all smoke and mirrors.

by Gene on Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 at 03:43:56 AM EST

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