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| 2008-12-17 |
| Derb-man strickes again ....I told you, in any case, back in 2005, that the Bush economy was all a lie. Why don’t you listen? The fundamental things apply as time goes by. Debts come due. What goes up, comes down. A person who isn’t disciplined enough to accumulate a decent deposit on a house purchase, probably isn't going to be disciplined enough to meet the mortgage payments. Nations whose citizens are frugal and honor productive, innovative manufacturers are more likely to prosper than nations whose citizens are spendthrift and honor “community organizers” and whiz-kid securities traders. Governments that drop boxcars full of money into fractious Middle Eastern sandpits, enact vast new welfare programs in hopes of currying votes, and shower the world with treasury bills like snowflakes so that their people can buy more toys, trinkets, gadgets, and lingerie than they need, will have less stable financial systems than those who don’t. Nations in which “Chief Diversity Officer” is an actual job category, with a higher salary than a credentialed engineer, have sunk too deep in frivolity ever to be fished out. And the Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return. For conservatives, paradise is well and truly lost. You could in fact, if you had a few months to spare, rewrite Milton’s epic with George W. Bush as Adam, the GOP as Eve, Reagan as Moses, Bill Buckley as the Muse, and so on. Who is Satan, though? I'm not sure, though I think I know where the bastard lives. It’s all very unfair. Conservatism is being cursed all around by association with George W. Bush, who has not been at all conservative where it matters: fiscal oversight, government spending, national sovereignty, war. Conservatives wept with joy to see him veto whatever it was he vetoed about embryonic stem cells, whatever they are, hardly minding that he had debauched the currency, opened the borders, acquired expensive client states, and turned the burner to full throttle under the welfare state hot-air balloon. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 John Derbysire = British crank. Except of course when he's exactly corect as he is here. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2008-12-17 13:31 |
| #1 John Derbysire = British crank. |
| Posted by: Milton Fandango 2008-12-17 13:07 |