By Michael J. Smith on Wednesday October 17, 2007 08:12 AM
I never thought the day would come that I'd have a good word to say
for George Will, but I gotta admit he tagged dear Hillary pretty
well recently:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601537.html
Clinton's idea for helping Americans save for retirement is this: Any family that earns less than $60,000 and puts $1,000 into a new 401(k)-type plan would receive a matching $1,000 tax cut....Hillary is nothing if not consistent. Her idea for health care (a variant on what J Alva Scruggs calls "Romneycare") is to force people to buy insurance. I suppose we can be glad that we won't be forced to buy retirement accounts; we'll have the choice of giving the money to the Pentagon instead. In both cases, however, her proposals involve a massive giveaway -- on the one hand, to the insurance moguls, and on the other, to Wall Street.George W. Bush made this case in his advocacy of personal accounts financed by a portion of individuals' Social Security taxes and invested in funds based on equities and bonds. When he proposed this, Clinton stridently opposed him....
Today her Web site calls her proposal a way to save for "a secure retirement." After an undisclosed epiphany, she belatedly recognizes that 401(k) funds invested in equities are a foundation for security.
Comments (4)
i'm flabber gutted father
hell i'd worship
at mother clinton's
brassy shrine
naked and uncombed
every mid day for a year
before i'd spare george will
even a moments peace
from the eternal reiteration
of nerve by nerve rasp and peel
he's bound
to win as his full reward on Judgement Day
Posted by op | October 17, 2007 9:37 PM
Posted on October 17, 2007 21:37
"I suppose we can be glad that we won't be forced to buy retirement accounts; we'll have the choice of giving the money to the Pentagon instead "
the Pent borrows all it needs
TO TUNE THE EMPIRE'S POWER POINTS
in a world made open to trans nat zap attacks
umble jobblers
are fed
forced prudence
forced mutual support
forced lot debt
forced longer ed
forced ...etc
a neo lib virtue
for job class geefs :
take the corporate rips
and pass the nasty consequences
around among ourselves
winged knot Rx
pass the shit
all down
to the ....OTHER
Posted by op | October 18, 2007 9:31 AM
Posted on October 18, 2007 09:31
Owen -- The latest update of Smith's Inferno features Hillary and George clamped together, face to face, inside one of those stereotactic frames they use for delicate brain surgery. That's all. No boiling sulphur, no endless tape loops of political oratory, nothing like that. Just an eternity of staring into each other's flabby, soul-rotted faces.
I'm rather proud of this. It's much subtler and more refined than my usual over-the-top sadistic fantasies -- and much crueler.
Posted by MJS | October 18, 2007 9:32 AM
Posted on October 18, 2007 09:32
yes more sartre then sadist
dante oughta sign you up
for his update
Posted by op | October 18, 2007 2:46 PM
Posted on October 18, 2007 14:46