[lbo-talk] Austerity

[Bill Quimby]

There is a rumor (which I would not normally bother to pass on, but I think this
has some truth) that Obama will support "austerity" measures in his state of the
union address by declaring that social security and all other social welfare programs
are wide open to "compromise".

FYI the term "greedy geezers" is already prominent in the blogosphere.

Moi nauseous aussi.

- Bill

123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Yes. I noticed that piece of "reportage."
> 
> The brainwashing is extremely effective though. One of my regular bridge partners
> is a senior scientist at UCB. Last month he told me that the greed of unionized
> teachers is the same thing as the greed of Goldman Sachs traders.
> 
> This has shown me that if you make things abstract enough, you can express any
> number of idiocies. But if you were to fill in the details:
> 
> "A teacher wishing to afford food and shelter after a lifetime of work is just as
> greedy as a man who wishes to retire at 35 on a king's ransom."
> 
> ...it's a little harder.
> 
> I supposed we should all prepare ourselves to hear about the greed of the old, the
> sick, and the unemployed.
> 
> I am nauseous.
> 
> Joanna
>