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[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

1. Taibbi has been trying. I still love this bit (from here) after a Palin rally:

"I'm anti-spending and anti-government," crows David, as scooter-bound Janice looks on. "The welfare state is out of control."

"OK," I say. "And what do you do for a living?"

"Me?" he says proudly. "Oh, I'm a property appraiser. Have been my whole life."

I frown. "Are either of you on Medicare?"

Silence: Then Janice, a nice enough woman, it seems, slowly raises her hand, offering a faint smile, as if to say, You got me!

"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?"

"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."

"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"

"Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much."

2. Relying on the Dems to do anything about this is *almost* as bad as relying on the Rs to do something about it-->they're both more interested in being re-elected than anything else, at least the Ds are open to paying for *some* of the giveaways.

Fuck me. STP, Sidd, STP.