Missionary Position---The Government Spenders and Horse Shit

Every time an election comes around we anxious citizens start hearing this crap about government spending, usually in a tone that implies it is really bad to spend funds on the commonwealth. Grover, the dip-shit, Norquist condemns taxes and wants to drown the entire system in a bath tub and then gets Republicans to pledge to never raise taxes---even though both Ronny and George I raised them horse race style---but called them budget adjustments.

The conservatives praise Lord Ronny like he was a no-spend saint sitting on the right hand of God and condem the Democrates for being reckless with the country's coins. Now, it is true the Donkey Boys do love a good entitlemant for just about everybody, thinking the government has to take care of every individual that has a hang nail, but when it comes to real spending for the big ticket items, there appears to be no match for the Elephant dudes. They really like wars. I suspect because the believe the economy needs a war.

The worse part of the whole deal is that neither one of them really has figured out how to pay for all this stuff. Somehow the GOP thinks by cutting taxes they will have more revenue. The Dems think they can print money and give bailouts, TARPs, quatitative easings and handouts to banks and once the economy recovers they can pay it all back. Oh, I almost forgot the Reps also do that.

It is sad because I suspect neither mode of economics will , in the end, work in a world of finite resources where growth will one day come to an end. Still the little graph here does tell a story, a story the public for some reason never seems to understand. It is one giant soap opera covered with horse shit.