Remember when you were little and you were whining to go to Disneyland or order a large pizza for supper or to get that shiny new toy, and your dad said "No, we can't afford it"?
He said that because he was a grownup, and it was his job to be responsible.
We need a new political party in Washington, to get the checkbook away from the 537 people who have been kiting checks like a runaway teenager who boosted mom's purse. Not the G.O.P., because they're part of the problem.
We will call ourselves the G.U.P.: the GrownUp Party, and our motto will be "No we can't!"
Chant it with me now:
"But all the other kids have ice cream and free universal health care!"
"No we can't!"
"Dad, I need a loan to keep my lemonade stand and automobile manufacturer in business!"
"No we can't!"
"No fair! Suzy got bailed out of her dumb high risk loans! Bail me out, too!"
"No we can't!"
"I want to go to Mars, North Korea, and Six Flags!"
"No we can't!"
We could have us a movement.
To modify something you said a few weeks ago to suit this purpose, "Anything anyone does on Mars is tax-free!"
ReplyDelete(But if you expect the Solar Guard to come bail your silver-lame-clad butt out, Dr. Robinson, expect to get a sizable bill. Payable in gold or silver.)
I'd vote for that.
ReplyDeleteCan the party symbol be a coiled up rattler?
No, WE can't! Cause there aren't enough thinkers to chant the truth.
ReplyDeleteTam for President!
ReplyDeleteWe're going to turn Afghanistan into Arizona!
ReplyDeleteNO, WE CAN'T.
Man, that thing works ANYWHERE. And the Gods of the Copybook Headings with fire and slaughter return!
We're Americans!
ReplyDeleteWe can spend our way out of anything!
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I'm on board. As far as I'm concerned we can start on this today.
ReplyDeleteNow, all we need is a plan to get from where we are now to where we need to be tomorrow.
I have one, but I'm not sure the rope industrial complex has that kind of capacity......
I agree with the sentiment and the logic. But, I'd rather say, "No, we won't!"
ReplyDeleteIt's not that we "can't", it that we "won't." We can ignore consequences to do just about anything, we choose however, to not venture down some paths by choice, "I won't!"
I think Eric Frank Russell has done this one already ...
ReplyDeleteNo I won't.
No, it's not "won't", it's "can't".
ReplyDeleteThat's the part that gives people conniptions; it's not being "obstructionist" to point out that you can't spend money you don't have.
Whoa there! No trips to Mars? If we do not develop space travel, how will we ever escape all the idiots? Because frankly, the odds on which way the future will go on this mudball are overwhelmingly on the side of the overwhelming majority - the idiots.
ReplyDeleteA movement? Can I sit on the Group W bench and play with the pencils?
ReplyDeleteA real movement, as opposed to the movement (classifiable on the Bristol Stool Chart) currently stinking up DC?
ReplyDeleteI'm fer it.
ReplyDeleteTony,
ReplyDeleteIf we want to go to Mars, we'll need to get a paper route and pay for it ourselves.
Waddayou mean we can't spend money?
ReplyDeleteWe still have working printing presses in the mint.
$100,000,000,000,000 cups of coffee are a small price to pay for a communist utopia!
No real comment, but could not waste this wv:
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Isn't that a gun show? :)
I am thinking of switching my party to "Tea Party"
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