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STEYN: Sticking it to the young
The Washington Times ^ | March 16, 2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 03/16/2009 2:41:34 AM PDT by Scanian

Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged and the early middle-aged - isn't it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn't offered to pick up the tab.

Well, OK, they didn't exactly “offer” but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey. And “Yes, we can!” Which is a pretty open-ended commitment.

Are you sure you young folks will be able to pay off this massive Mount Spendmore of multi-trillion-dollar debts we've piled up on you?”Yes, we can!”

We thought you would say that! God bless the youth of America! We of the Greatest Generation, the boomers and Generation X salute you, the plucky members of the Brokest Generation, the Gloomers and Generation Y, as in “Why the hell did you old coots do this to us?”

Because, as politicians like to say, it's about “the future of all our children.” And the future of all our children is that they'll be paying off the past of all their grandparents. At 12 percent of gross domestic product, this year's deficit is the highest since World War II, and prioritizes not economic vitality but massive expansion of government. But hey, it's not our problem. As John Maynard Keynes observed, “In the long run we're all dead.”

Well, most of us will be. But not you youngsters, not for a while. So we've figured it out: You're the ultimate credit market, and the rest of us are all pre-approved!

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhobudget; bhodeficit; deficits; obama; spending
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To: samtheman
On and on you go.

Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.

Oh, dear...


41 posted on 03/16/2009 8:27:19 AM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: Jaxter
Obama - Stalin
42 posted on 03/16/2009 8:36:45 AM PDT by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: beaversmom

Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hansen are my two favorite writers today!!


43 posted on 03/16/2009 8:39:25 AM PDT by bfree (Obamie the Commie-- FBO)
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To: TChris

Excellent.


44 posted on 03/16/2009 8:40:16 AM PDT by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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To: Scanian
The iteration that Steyn repeats, is so damning, all with his sense of humor, I can't stop laugh...and simultaneously crying:

The Bailout and the Tarp and the Stimulus and the Multi-Trillion Budget and Tarp 2 and Stimulus 2 and Tarp and Stimulus Meet Frankenstein and The Wolf Man are like the old Saturday-morning cliffhanger serials your grandpa used to enjoy. But now he doesn't have to grab his walker and totter down to the Rialto, because he can just switch on the news and every week there's his plucky little hero Big Government facing the same old crisis: Why, there's yet another exciting spending bill with 12 zeroes on the end, but unfortunately there seems to be some question about whether they have the votes to pass it. Oh, no!

And then, just as the fate of another gazillion dollars of pork and waste hangs in the balance, Arlen Specter or one of those lady senators from Maine dashes to the cliff edge and gives a helping hand, and phew, this week's spendapalooza sails through. But don't worry, there'll be another exciting episode of Trillion-Buck Rogers of the 21st Century next week!

45 posted on 03/16/2009 10:21:13 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: knews_hound

Thanks for the wonderful Steyn ping!


46 posted on 03/16/2009 10:24:19 AM PDT by alwaysconservative (I would apologize for this presidency, except that I'm not responsible for its stupidity.)
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To: imahawk
Never pass up an oppurtunity to remind the teen agers and young adults just how they have sh!t in their own dinner bucket for voting for the marxist.

AMEN to that! I'll never forget a photo in one of the college periodicals showing a group of "young skulls full of mush" weeping for joy at the announcement that the Messiah had clinched the election (talk about a Barf Alert). In their case, it'd be only poetic justice.

47 posted on 03/16/2009 10:24:38 AM PDT by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear...")
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To: LearsFool

I didn’t know it would get reposted so often by PGalt.

“They’re selling the rights to collect on our labor, like we were slaves on the auction block. They’re selling our children and grandchildren as futures contracts.” - by LearsFool on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194738/posts - February 26, 2009

Truth to power. regards,
JH


48 posted on 03/16/2009 1:15:51 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander (the people criticizing Christie are directly connected to the criminal politicians he convicted.")
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To: Scanian

Thank GOD for people like Mark Steyn, he totally nails it once again.


49 posted on 03/16/2009 3:47:02 PM PDT by Dustbunny ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatch)
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To: Thermalseeker
Don't forget Congress. The President can't spend a dime without a willing Congress.....
I think you're reversing the equation.

Congress always wants to spend more money. That's what it's there for.

But a President, especially a Republican President, has a different task.

The task of a President, especially a Republican President, is to restrain spending.

In that regard, George W Bush (I hate to say it, in the words of the dick Gephart) was a miserable failure.

50 posted on 03/16/2009 4:58:10 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Dustbunny

Isn’t it amazing how many good, conservative voices there are who have their origins under the British system!? Steyn, Blankley, Varney are the ones who come immediately to mind. Funny, but I’m blanking out trying to think of liberal British-American pundits.


51 posted on 03/16/2009 5:19:52 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Paul Ross

I started calling the fall TARP panic the Perils of Pauline Paulson but Steyn went me about 100 times better with those two paragraphs!


52 posted on 03/16/2009 5:37:01 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: knews_hound
And then, just as the fate of another gazillion dollars of pork and waste hangs in the balance, Arlen Specter or one of those lady senators from Maine dashes to the cliff edge and gives a helping hand, and phew, this week's spendapalooza sails through. But don't worry, there'll be another exciting episode of Trillion-Buck Rogers of the 21st Century next week!

Right on target.

53 posted on 03/16/2009 8:10:49 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: JerseyHighlander

I didn’t mean to make a big deal about that quote. (It’s not like it’s copyrighted, after all!:-) And I certainly didn’t want to detract from the excellent discussion of Steyn’s article.

Please pardon my pettiness. :-)


54 posted on 03/17/2009 7:01:55 AM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Scanian
For our own survival we'd better listen to the Liberals and let them confiscate all the guns because in a few years our grandchildren will soon be coming after us!
55 posted on 03/17/2009 9:01:14 AM PDT by Gritty (We coots figured it out. Youngsters are the ultimate credit market, and we're pre-approved!-Mk Steyn)
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To: Scanian
The Bailout and the Tarp and the Stimulus and the Multi-Trillion Budget and Tarp 2 and Stimulus 2 and Tarp and Stimulus Meet Frankenstein and The Wolf Man are like the old Saturday-morning cliffhanger serials your grandpa used to enjoy. But now he doesn't have to grab his walker and totter down to the Rialto, because he can just switch on the news and every week there's his plucky little hero Big Government facing the same old crisis: Why, there's yet another exciting spending bill with 12 zeroes on the end, but unfortunately there seems to be some question about whether they have the votes to pass it. Oh, no!

And then, just as the fate of another gazillion dollars of pork and waste hangs in the balance, Arlen Specter or one of those lady senators from Maine dashes to the cliff edge and gives a helping hand, and phew, this week's spendapalooza sails through. But don't worry, there'll be another exciting episode of Trillion-Buck Rogers of the 21st Century next week!

Mark Steyn: best, most on-target, and wittiest writer in the English language today.

56 posted on 03/22/2009 10:06:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: knews_hound; beaversmom; Rummyfan; kellynla; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; ...

Impromptu Ping - Steyn on Rush Limbaugh 3-23-2009! - sorry don’t have the whole Steyn Ping List ...

TH54


57 posted on 03/23/2009 9:06:16 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: OH4life

[Face it, Reagan hugely increased the debt, Bush I hugely increased the debt, Bush II hugely increased the debt, and now Obama is going to hugely increase the debt.]

Obama is going to increase the debt by more than ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED!


58 posted on 03/30/2009 2:28:53 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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