Relax, Pauline. You're not going over the cliff. You are the succulent trough from which our Masters slurp, and they're smart enough -- just barely -- to keep you breathing. Certainly they'll rip your petticoats and rape you a little bit, but in due course you'll up and around, fattening yourself for the next episode. Which will end like this one, music at crescendo, another drama under the glaring Kliegs, and the most egregious case of political ham-acting since Marc Antony delivered extemporaneous remarks over the corpse of Caesar.
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It's fun to watch the posturing, like an evening at Bedlam, but it's too easy to have moments of taking these apes seriously. Resist that. Pay attention to the fine print projected hazily on the scrim:
"What liars these political things be."
For those lacking time or motivation to follow the link, the historical evidence shows governments as perpetual payday loan clients. Give them a new dollar and they will spend it, plus some -- $1.04 to $1.80, depending on how you slice and dice the survey data.
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Paul Krugman,that noted fiscal conservative, made a statement in his column in this morning's Chronicle that was frighteninly accurate, although I don't think he intended it that way. His statement, regarding the "fiscal cliff" was; Don't worry about the U.S. running out of money, we print it. JAGSC
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