Congressman Ryan (another escaped Irishman) has proposed a budget that enchants the politicos. After reading about said budget, pro and con, I am unsurprised to note he requires his staff to read Ayn Rand.
Ms. Rand was a fibber, a shameless self promotor and a rabid Social Darwinist. Her vision of paradise is a valley overlooked by a huge gold dollar sign. (She wanted to return to the gold standard). In this capitalist haven the elite were building railroads,making proper restaurants and creating a society filled with winners.
I always wondered who in this sparse society was going to use all the goodies created. The heros were none of them breeders.
With the immodesty so amply modeled by Ryan, Swift and Rand, I propose a clear budget for the new United States.
1.Cut all taxes for the rich. Rich people are those who make a quarter million dollars a year.
2.Get rid of medicare, medicad and other entitlements except one.
3.The one entitlement the nation's taxpayers should pay for is the mandatory euthenasia of all poor citizens over 65. This is to include their cremation expenses. (For the purposes clarification "poor" means any person not earning a quarter of a million dollars a year at 65. Should a person cease to earn or possess said income after 65, this person will become poor and report for euthansia.) "Living [ is] a thing which money can buy."
4.Curtail the population.No abortion need be used, only mandatory sterilization for "low IQ" women.
5.Disallow all Unions. The loss of miners and others engaged in dangerous work is unimportant. There are more where they came from and besides, they're used to it.
6. Get rid of the EPA, the department of Education and the department of Housing, Health and Welfare.
7.Rebrand Congress. Think "House of Lords" and "House of Business Counts." Reinstate hereditary titles.
8. Heed the tea party and put engravings of the ten commandments, suitably reinterpretted in the matter of "honoring parents." in every public place.
9. Remove all bars to monopoly. The current laws are a joke anyway.
10.Let business control all media.
This is an adult look at the problem of national debt. It rests on the confluence of social Darwinism, evangelical conflation with being "saved" and earning lots of money and the natural desire to be important.
Speaking of which, I hope that my thought and care result in press attention and lots of praise for taking the real adult look at our society and its debt.
PS. I am also and escaped Irish person. I also have no formal training in economics but can recognize "voodoo" economics when I see it. I also exercise every morning and have put my students through tough reading assignments.
I'm not as cute as Mr.(or should I say "Count") Ryan, but I can part my hair on the other side and garner comment from the serious press as did Count Ryan.
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