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Not doing something wrong is not the same as doing something right ...
Translation: "Mwuh-hahahaaa! Our little plan worked! We have portrayed ourselves as being 'reasonable' by declining to go along with a droolingly moronic proposal. Now it's the Republicans' turn to be 'reasonable' by going along with whatever it is that we really do want! Mwuh-hahahaaa!"White House spokesman Jay Carney said that with the platinum coin question resolved, the pressure is on congressional Republicans now to act to raise the debt ceiling.
*sniff sniff sniff* Is that irony I smell? Why, I do believe it is ...But if the Federal Reserve does not believe that the coin is worth $1 trillion and refuses to buy it, then the plan falls apart.
The Bastiat Collection ˇ FREE PDF ˇ FREE EPUB ˇ PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)ˇ tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ˇ
...and it was such a perfect solution to simply pay off all debt. Now the children are stuck with the burden.
LOL
I was looking forward to starting a collection of fake ones ...
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