A Schiavo Economy

With apologies to her friends and family; this idea came to me as a way to demonstrate the absurd management of our nation's financial situation. The idea came to me while watching the latest episode of Family Guy, with Rush Limbaugh as guest.

At one point Rush's character says;

Wherever there's a woman in need of expensive life support her husband doesn't want, I'll be there.

Again, with apologies; isn't our current economic situation somewhat analogous to a person on life support? Or, at least, aren't there points of comparison between the two which are instructional to how they are seen by each side? Let me try to torture out the connection, as it came to me.

Unable to live on their own, expensive to keep going, continued existence valued, husband doesn't want to to pay the price.

As a brief description of the Terri Sciavo's situation those phrases have meaning, but, could we not replace those statements with the following and describe our economic woes?

Businesses failing of their own management, government bailouts cost a fortune, too big to fail, the taxpayer doesn't want to pay the price.

Crude, but accurate? I saw a parallel, is it really there? Can it be helpful in explaining the insanity in this government's economic recovery strategy?

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Full version of Family Guy episode here:

One Nation Of Slobs

So, the story is this; a group decided to have a counter rally to the one organized by Glenn Beck (8/28), so they hired buses to carry their labor buddies to Washington. They claimed their get together was not in reaction to the 8/28 Rally but announced their hope to exceed the attendance of that event. Why? If not to beat Beck, then why the comparison? Because they lie when they say it isn't about out-doing Beck, that's why. The picture above shows they failed, 8/28 is on the left, One Nation on the right.

Then, (to keep save face?), the speakers make the comparison during the Rally.


But, in comparing, they choose to fool their audience by comparing the attendance to the DAY AFTER the 8/28 Rally! And the crowd was probably dumb enough to buy it.

Apparently, Litter Is The New Green

That's progress?

Of cours, these are the same people who have pushed our society toward a greater reliance on others to do for us. The, so-called, entitlement mentality. The thinking at this rally must have been, 'leave it, someone else will pick up after us'.