freecounterpoint: Old but good

Monday, June 08, 2009

I didn't see this necessary article posted, but I have been out of touch a bit.

Tecumseh said...: Thanks, Rot, I hadn't seen this Steyn piece, either.

Like General Motors, the U.S. government spends more than it makes, and has airily committed itself to ever more unsustainable levels of benefits. GM has about 95,000 workers but provides health benefits to a million people: It's not a business enterprise, but a vast welfare plan with a tiny loss-making commercial sector. As GM goes, so goes America?

Fer sure. And Pepe ululates. Of course.; 6/08/2009 1:32 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: if i had to ululate as much as you have me do, i'd break my tongue tec.; 6/08/2009 2:32 PM
Tecumseh said...: Like General Motors, America is "too big to fail." So it won't, not immediately. It will linger on in a twilight existence, sclerotic and ineffectual, declining unto a kind of societal dementia, unable to keep pace with what's happening and with an ever more tenuous grip on its own past, but able on occasion to throw out impressive words albeit strung together without much meaning: empower, peace, justice, prosperity.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.; 6/08/2009 3:09 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: allaho akhbar!; 6/08/2009 3:50 PM
Mr roT said...: what's the sound of one tongue breaking?; 6/08/2009 5:00 PM