call me crates

"the people voted to end business as usual, and today we begin to carry out those instructions."
john a boehner. r-ohio

"my goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years. to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bath tub."
grover nordquist

"if you're sick of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
george w bush

one wonders how many lobbyists have already paid court to the new unpelosi as he and his cohort in the 112th prepare to ram the granite facade of the second republic to see if it can survive the people's mandate...my surmise is that they will have no more success ( or any more desire to succeed) than the 111th...or the first for that matter...successful political life in whoretown is the result of adhereing to a finely balanced equation of private coniving coupled with a public misrepresenation of fact...the capitol's marble halls are rendolent with the carcasses of the political careers of those who let one side or the other of that equation come unglued..the idealists like old grover, are blind to this ( or are very skilled at the misrepresenataion part)...they seem to think the system is broken and that with a little well intended tinkering it would run on its true course again...nothing could be farther from the truth...sadly for them the system is working as the original framer intended it to work although, perhaps, on a far larger scale than they dreamed...grover never stood a chance in hell and he watched in facinated horror as his own staff grew to include dick cheney's mother -in-law and a contingent from the grand rapids chamber of commerce the rnc had nowhere else to send...as far as tha degenerate moron carping about cynicism, while doing the tedious research for applicable quotes i ran across this howler from the giddy fool in all his lame duck glory as the economy augered in at the end of his second term: "i had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system." aside from showing that free market principles are a complete fiction it is one of the most cynical public utterances by a u s president..and that covers a lot of ground...he sold out distorted and perverted "market principles" to save some cronies and some highly placed beneficiaries of "business as usual"...whoretown is a knocking shop and the "people's business" is run by whores pimped to the highest bidder...fuck these people.

meanwhile the government is on top of events

"under a new, revised census formula overall poverty stood at 15.7 percent or 47.8 million people. across all demographic groups, americans 65 or older sustained the largest increases in poverty under the revised formula, nearly doubling to 16.1 percent. as a whole working age adults 18-64 also saw increases in poverty as well as whites and hispanics. the new measure will not replace the official poverty rate, but will be published alongside the tradtional figure as a supplement this fall for federal agencies and state governments."
associated press 1-7-2011

like unemployment figures the government cooks the books on poverty to paint a rosier picture of life in the late empire than many of us know...we are aware of the dichotomy between reality and the government ( and wall street, for lo they are the same fucking thing...who is the current secretary of avarice? or would that fall under the jurisdiction of the federal reserve?) vison of our lives...yet they keep publishing these howlers in the grey, mostly uninformed, language of the bureaucracy...it would be worth a laugh of so many were not suffering...but the recovery grinds on...the market and the government and ( most importantly) economists say so...i love it when they lie to me...i love it when they think i am a fool...so...fuck these people


self-sustaining recovery?

one has to wonder how long ben bernanke can survive with his head up his ass like that.