Flaccid? He has an app. for that.
Posted on 05/06/2010 8:02:52 AM PDT by FreeKeys
If government spending is growing faster than gross domestic product (GDP), can the resulting deficit problem be solved by: (A) decreasing the rate of growth of government spending, (B) increasing tax rates, (C) decreasing the rate of growth of government spending and increasing tax rates? If you answered A, you have a strong brain and can go to the head of the class. If you answered B, you have a flaccid brain and will need to repeat the class...
People with flaccid brains have a hard time understanding the consequences of actions, and they tend to treat variables as constants (e.g., I know how to drive, so I should be able to drive drunk). As we know from both physics and behavioral science, almost every action causes some reaction. Flaccid brains, for various reasons, have a hard time understanding this basic principle... Hence, they rarely do real cost-benefit analyses or think about the long run.
An example of a flaccid brain is that which occupies the skull of Sen. Bill Nelson... who, in a hysterical reaction to the Gulf oil spill, wants to shut down all offshore drilling. As damaging as the spill is, one major accident every 40-plus years (the Santa Barbara channel spill was in 1969) is something we can live with, given that we get about one-third of our oil from offshore platforms...
The new health care bill contains a provision that has nothing to do with health care. In attempting to raise a little more revenue, Congress inserted a measure that requires both large and small businesses to flood the IRS with perhaps billions of documents... (imagine having to file a 1099 form every time you pay your landlord, phone company, office-supply vendor or catering company or buy an airline ticket?) This is sheer madness,...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Rahm: Flaccid......uh,.er, nevermind..............
Bill Nelson is an idiot. TV keeps the public stupid.
“People with flaccid brains”
Hello. This is PBS and I’m Hugh G. Rection. This is my English pointer, `Boner’.
We keep our brains in jars and .. oh diddly doodly.
Flaccid? He has an app. for that.
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