Friday, November 15, 2013

It couldn't have happened to a nicer philosophy...

You're talking about Congress! All it ever does is eat tax dollars and shit out red tape and misery. How you thought they could help is beyond me.

Like the famous hippie said:
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.

9 comments:

Steve Skubinna said...

A disaster for all of us who cares about government doing things

Well, yeah. Also for everybody else, but screw them, right? Glad TNR has their eyes on the real problem.

Tam said...

Their tweet is a disaster for all of us who cares about subject-verb agreement. ;)

Kang said...

"You're talking about Congress! All it ever does is eat tax dollars and shit out red tape and misery."

Epic quote!

Tam said...

Dammit, they changed their blurb at TNR! :D

Steve Skubinna said...

Subject-verb agreement? Pshaw! An outmoded tool of the patriarchy! Or the kyriarchy, whatever. I lose track of where my checks are coming from these days.

Yeah, the Koch Brothers, obviously, but I mean on whose behalf at any given time.

Old NFO said...

True, period...

staghounds said...

Not many people remember that the old hippie was a serious entrepreneur, global businessman, and extractor of irreplaceable, scarce natural resources.

You know, a one percenter.

staghounds said...

Oops I forgot, inheritor of industrial wealth.

Windy Wilson said...

Stag, and he saw to it that trees were cut down to provide materials for his business.

Having read this, I see there was an ulterior motive for only Walden of all his writings being read in the American Literature course.