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Today, brothers and sisters, we are blessed by having two excellent and educational threads. This one, and this other one :

Obama Unveils $3.8 trillion budget

From this thread, we have the following:

Like other Progressives, Theodore Roosevelt was a critic and foe of big business. In this he was not inhibited by any knowledge of economics, and his own business ventures lost money.
Rhetoric was TR's strong suit. He denounced "the mighty industrial overlords" and "the tyranny of mere wealth."

Which immediately allows us to mine the wealth within the line between rhetoric and demagoguery.

"The tyranny of mere ignorance."
"The tyranny of mere doublespeak."
"The tyranny of mere pandering."
"The tyranny of mere class warfare."

And finally,
The tyranny of mere Bullshit" *

Moving right along to the mere First Incompetent's budget, we get this gem : "We built this budget around the idea that our country has always done best when everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules,"

To normal human beings, in a society, except for the very young, the insane, the handicapped, the terminally ill and the extremely aged, NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO A "FAIR SHARE" OF ZERO!
It's impossible to accept that 50% of our entire population falls within the exempt list at the beginning of this paragraph.

That ubiquitous phrase is thrown out endlessly, and meaninglessly, and the parasites of society capitalize on it, as do the pandering bureaucrats and politicians. The mere parasites are entitled to a "fair share" of zero. What do they all have in common?
Everyone on that list except for minors can vote themselves permanent parasite status, as can 50% of the adult population.

*BULLSHIT
London Times Online, 25 Feb 2005