"Art is a lie that tells the truth" -- Pablo Picasso
Saturday, November 20, 2010
We May Need His Like Again
Jonathan Swift
We may well need the services of someone like the Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin once again. We may be about to relive the brutality of the Britain of Robert Walpole and early capitalism.
From your headline on Google Reader, I wondered whether you referred to the country or to the Anguishing Communion. No Swift as yet, I believe, in either case.
I think Tom Tomorrow in "This Modern World" really captured things well, re the proposed Social Security age-raising. "People are living longer" says the rationale. No, they're not. THE RICH are living MUCH longer, not the poor (or lower middle-class---if they're any of THEM left). "Janitors will be forced to work TILL THEY DROP, to make possible tax cuts for lawyers" said Tom T.
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Jonathan Swift
From your headline on Google Reader, I wondered whether you referred to the country or to the Anguishing Communion. No Swift as yet, I believe, in either case.
ReplyDeleteI think Tom Tomorrow in "This Modern World" really captured things well, re the proposed Social Security age-raising. "People are living longer" says the rationale. No, they're not. THE RICH are living MUCH longer, not the poor (or lower middle-class---if they're any of THEM left). "Janitors will be forced to work TILL THEY DROP, to make possible tax cuts for lawyers" said Tom T.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Tom Tomorrow is our Swift.
Indeed, hedge fund managers are living longer. The rest of us are expendable.
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