Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Oh, dear...
Posted on 03/16/2009 2:41:34 AM PDT by Scanian
Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged and the early middle-aged - isn't it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn't offered to pick up the tab.
Well, OK, they didn't exactly “offer” but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey. And “Yes, we can!” Which is a pretty open-ended commitment.
Are you sure you young folks will be able to pay off this massive Mount Spendmore of multi-trillion-dollar debts we've piled up on you?”Yes, we can!”
We thought you would say that! God bless the youth of America! We of the Greatest Generation, the boomers and Generation X salute you, the plucky members of the Brokest Generation, the Gloomers and Generation Y, as in “Why the hell did you old coots do this to us?”
Because, as politicians like to say, it's about “the future of all our children.” And the future of all our children is that they'll be paying off the past of all their grandparents. At 12 percent of gross domestic product, this year's deficit is the highest since World War II, and prioritizes not economic vitality but massive expansion of government. But hey, it's not our problem. As John Maynard Keynes observed, “In the long run we're all dead.”
Well, most of us will be. But not you youngsters, not for a while. So we've figured it out: You're the ultimate credit market, and the rest of us are all pre-approved!
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hansen are my two favorite writers today!!
Excellent.
The Bailout and the Tarp and the Stimulus and the Multi-Trillion Budget and Tarp 2 and Stimulus 2 and Tarp and Stimulus Meet Frankenstein and The Wolf Man are like the old Saturday-morning cliffhanger serials your grandpa used to enjoy. But now he doesn't have to grab his walker and totter down to the Rialto, because he can just switch on the news and every week there's his plucky little hero Big Government facing the same old crisis: Why, there's yet another exciting spending bill with 12 zeroes on the end, but unfortunately there seems to be some question about whether they have the votes to pass it. Oh, no!
And then, just as the fate of another gazillion dollars of pork and waste hangs in the balance, Arlen Specter or one of those lady senators from Maine dashes to the cliff edge and gives a helping hand, and phew, this week's spendapalooza sails through. But don't worry, there'll be another exciting episode of Trillion-Buck Rogers of the 21st Century next week!
Thanks for the wonderful Steyn ping!
AMEN to that! I'll never forget a photo in one of the college periodicals showing a group of "young skulls full of mush" weeping for joy at the announcement that the Messiah had clinched the election (talk about a Barf Alert). In their case, it'd be only poetic justice.
I didn’t know it would get reposted so often by PGalt.
“They’re selling the rights to collect on our labor, like we were slaves on the auction block. They’re selling our children and grandchildren as futures contracts.” - by LearsFool on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194738/posts - February 26, 2009
Truth to power. regards,
JH
Thank GOD for people like Mark Steyn, he totally nails it once again.
Don't forget Congress. The President can't spend a dime without a willing Congress.....I think you're reversing the equation.
Congress always wants to spend more money. That's what it's there for.
But a President, especially a Republican President, has a different task.
The task of a President, especially a Republican President, is to restrain spending.
In that regard, George W Bush (I hate to say it, in the words of the dick Gephart) was a miserable failure.
Isn’t it amazing how many good, conservative voices there are who have their origins under the British system!? Steyn, Blankley, Varney are the ones who come immediately to mind. Funny, but I’m blanking out trying to think of liberal British-American pundits.
I started calling the fall TARP panic the Perils of Pauline Paulson but Steyn went me about 100 times better with those two paragraphs!
Right on target.
I didn’t mean to make a big deal about that quote. (It’s not like it’s copyrighted, after all!:-) And I certainly didn’t want to detract from the excellent discussion of Steyn’s article.
Please pardon my pettiness. :-)
And then, just as the fate of another gazillion dollars of pork and waste hangs in the balance, Arlen Specter or one of those lady senators from Maine dashes to the cliff edge and gives a helping hand, and phew, this week's spendapalooza sails through. But don't worry, there'll be another exciting episode of Trillion-Buck Rogers of the 21st Century next week!
Mark Steyn: best, most on-target, and wittiest writer in the English language today.
Impromptu Ping - Steyn on Rush Limbaugh 3-23-2009! - sorry don’t have the whole Steyn Ping List ...
TH54
[Face it, Reagan hugely increased the debt, Bush I hugely increased the debt, Bush II hugely increased the debt, and now Obama is going to hugely increase the debt.]
Obama is going to increase the debt by more than ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED!
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