consume...., or else...

[kpete]

The deficit is deliberate, remember?

Won't be any social safety nets, public works programs, response to global warming, or any kind of endeavor not related to enriching the financial markets. All that is over. Space exploration, national parks, grants for higher education, forget it, gone.

There will be tax cuts for the wealthy though since that creates jobs.
OK, it doesn't create jobs but the wealthy are semi-divine so we should pay homage to them anyway.

Hope you enjoyed that brief period of upward mobility, but it's over.

Hope you enjoyed those decades of greatnessm but they're over.

Now go max out those credit cards or you can expect to be black-bagged to a military tribunal as a terrorist. Consume or else.

from a comment at:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/sunday_open_thread_15.html

[dkf]

1. We are mice trying to spend faster and faster on our shopping treadmill.

[Skink]

2. Bush said it better. Just go shop.

[alterfurz]

3. Work... Buy... Consume... Why?... Die.

graffito at a mall construction site in Madison WI, ca. 1970.

[freshwest]

4. Perfect.

Prediction of what was described in 'THEY LIVE.'

I used to ask in discussions, why we are putting so much of our society and world through these motions.

To what purpose, I would ask.

Unfortunately that stifled discussions, so I had to quit.

Because it was ending the game.