Swirl
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Pioneer Press article says this federal government shut-down could be worse than the last. They’re right, but for the wrong reasons.
There are more people dependent on the federal government than ever before, so more will be harmed, so more will complain and there will be more heartbreaking news stories about how bad the shut-down is and how wicked the Republicans are, for causing it.
To President Obama and Congressional Democrats, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
To me, it’s evidence how much farther the system has gotten out of whack. The underlying premise of the tearjerker stories will be the federal government cannot fail because people will be hurt. But “too big to fail” only works if there is someone to bail you out.
Who will bail out America?
Joe Doakes
Smug self-satisfaction will be a medium of exchange by that point. It will be legal tender.
September 28th, 2013 at 9:42 am
Like the pimp, drug dealer, or school district office, the more you do to create dependancy on you, the more you can exploit it to your advantage in times of need.
The dependancy not only results in the on-going support from the dependant class, it can also be used to manipulate them into doing your bidding on other, unrelated issues. Of course, we can quit anytime we want to …