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The Rats Are Going Swimming
The Market Ticker ^ | June 22. 2010 | Karl Denninger

Posted on 06/22/2010 6:50:50 AM PDT by voveo

...the Feral Government is increasingly being exposed as a pack of animals - cornered animals.

Recognition that The Feral Government has run the ship not aground but rather into an iceberg is rapidly spreading throughout the second-level administration people - along with firms and individuals who are in some way dependent on it.

(Excerpt) Read more at market-ticker.denninger.net ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; corruption; democrats; denninger; fail; mcchrystal; obama; orszag

1 posted on 06/22/2010 6:50:55 AM PDT by voveo
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To: voveo

I believe the ship’s officers still fully expect American taxpayers to be able to lift the ship off the iceberg and swim with it on their backs for 1,000 miles to get it to a port where it can be repaired.

Of course, the half of America that doesn’t pay taxes will remain safely aboard the ship during this rescue effort. The idea that they would be asked to help out is apparently odious to the ship’s commander, as to him, that would be just so UNFAIR.


2 posted on 06/22/2010 8:02:03 AM PDT by DrC
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To: voveo

“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
-USSC Justice Louis D. Brandeis: Dissenting Opinion in “Olmstead v. United States” (1928)


3 posted on 06/22/2010 8:03:47 AM PDT by griswold3 (If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you've already got half the vote.)
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