XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: kiltmac@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/18/2013 11:35 AM, linuxgal wrote:   
   > Zepp wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 18 May 2013 06:33:20 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> >Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>>> >>Republicans have been building deficits into the system for 30 years,   
   >>>> >>but that's only okay if they run the show. When someone else is   
   >>>> trying   
   >>>> >>to clean up their mess they whine about how the Dem is running a   
   >>>> >>deficit.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >For the record, I was extremely pissed off when W racked up 4.3   
   >>> trillion   
   >>> >dollars in new debt.   
   >> You must have felt lonely, since most Republicans and libertarians seemed   
   >> quite content to follow Dick Cheney's lead and declare that deficits   
   >> don't matter.   
   >   
   > Republicans maybe, but never libertarians.   
   >   
   > There are two kinds of people in this world, and they can be pegged by   
   > their attitude toward receiving a credit card in the mail.   
   >   
   > One type of person goes, "Cool, I now have a machine that allows me to   
   > apply my projected future earnings to the present time to purchase items   
   > such as a car or a large television set priced somewhat beyond my   
   > current ability to pay on an instantaneous basis, with the caveat that   
   > there are friction costs associated with that machine in the form of   
   > interest charges."   
   >   
   > The other type of person goes, "Betsy-Rae, says here the credit limit is   
   > ten thousand dollars!  YEE HAW!   We just got TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN   
   > THE MAIL!  Lets go to WalMart and max that sucker out!!!!"   
   >   
   There is, of course, the third kind. "Who the fuck sent me this shiny   
   trap? Where's the scissors, honey? Gotta cut this up toot sweet. Well,   
   maybe I'll save the neat hologram part."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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