“Sign me up for your tea party, patriots!”
By Mary on Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 in money, politricks
Oh, this you must watch. Here is M.Ba, all hopped up some hot Lemon Zinger, preachin’ to the U.S. of Tea:
(Via Politics in Minnesota, who has to live with her, although according to the masthead it is run by “a tiny red speck in a big blue precinct,” so maybe they are the ones who foisted this lady on us.)
Anyhow, that “cap and tax” meme certainly seems to be M.Ba’s new favorite toy. How quickly she tired of her “global currency” closet monster! Well, at least we can enjoy this MIT professor’s fun reaction to the news that his research has been dragged into the “cap and tax” brouhaha. “It’s just wrong,” he says, “it’s wrong in so many ways it’s hard to begin.”
Hmmmm, we could begin by tossing Michele Bachmann in a vat of tea, to see if she sinks, perhaps?
The notion of a continental (or global) currency isn’t the product of Cheetos™-fingered conspiracy theorists with bad skin and good internet access, and shouldn’t be dismissed simply because a Midwestern pol with a curious track record and dubious acumen happens to be the one blathering about it on C-Span.
Within the next two years, one can expect to see Stiglitz, Krugman, et al start advancing the “amero” agenda; within ten, there will likely be a concerted effort (with implicit backing from ‘Ra’ Emanuel) to redraft the map of North America – with the multinational populace’s “best interests” in mind, of course.
Having given the Free Market free reign, we’ve not only necessitated governmental intervention (rather than governmental oversight), we’ve given closet Lukácsians, like the two and a half mentioned above, whatever rhetorical ammo they need to use against a Republic financed by capital-generating policies; a Republic founded, interestingly enough, on the assumption of individual state debts.
Concern about the increasing likelihood of a transmogrification into a Marxist state and the appearance of a universal system of economic exchange isn’t to be shrugged off as the domain of schizofreniforms on a Mountain Dew™ binge: The national sovereignty (i.e., the geographic, economic, and philosophical landscape) of the United States IS at stake – and it’s entirely OUR FAULT.
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Bob Veal | Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
Wow, that was long-winded. Your blog, my bad.
Bob Veal | Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
No worries, sir, long-winded opinionating is the point of the internet.
And even though you are 100% wrong re: creeping Marxism and phantom ameros — I mean, yeah, totally credible to think that Ben Bernanke is sitting in an office somewhere bingeing on Nanaimo bars and dreaming of the day he can cede monetary policy to a bunch of Saskatchewanians — I appreciate that you were able make this comment box render those trademarks properly. I didn’t know it could do that.
Mary | Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
“We’ll see.”©
Bob Veal | Apr 10, 2009 | Reply