Sorry, I just have to rant. People act like the government is NOW wasting their money, but have conveniently forgotten that this has been going on for years.
Its ludicrous. I have been saying for months and years that the deficits the government were running were unsustainable, but the deficits remained enormous. Now that we are in a recession and there actually is a risk that the economy will slump into a depression, everyone is a fiscal conservative. How ridiculous is this?
I just don't understand why people are so short-sighted. NOW they care about being fiscally conservative. What about the last eight years? What the hell were they doing then? Just turning their head while the government racked up innumerable debts while the economy was doing fine? I'm just so frustrated that people are so hypocritical. When the government has no need to be spending so much money, they don't care. When the government probably should be spending the money so that the economy doesn't collapse, they think it is time to be a fiscal hawk.
Its just plain ridiculous, and everyone who now thinks the government is wasting the taxpayers' money but weren't protesting the deficits we have been running for the last eight years (excluding some of the recessionary periods such as after 9/11) is a flagrant hypocrite.
/End rant.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
