If it’s allergy season, it’s time for another round of Ask Egg, where I answer letters that should have been written before the subjects acted.
Dear Egg,
A year into our stimulus, the only things that have been stimulated are government employees and opposition to our policies. We need a new slogan to get us through November, but Works Progress Administration was already taken by our hero. HELP!
-Gone Golfing
Dear Gone,
Socialism has failed every place it’s been tried. If you had studied history, you would know that. Slapping a shiny label on a piece of dung doesn’t change the fact that it’s dung, nor does it cover up the smell. Cut the spending, cut the taxes, and you’ll find the economy responds nicely.
-Egg
P.S. Take your entire “leadership” team golfing with you, and see you in January.
Dear Egg,
My daddy handed me this great job that is half a world away from my frigid “home” where all I had to do was follow the crowd. Up until this month, it looked like I was a lock to stay here in the hot swamp another 6 years, but something funny (like a deranged clown) happened on the way to an easy victory. I really don’t want to freeze again. What can you do?
-Frigid in the Frozen North
Dear Frigid,
Perhaps they tossed you out because you followed the wrong crowd. Take your lumps and learn from them. Do recall what happened to the last person in your line of work who decided to fully-adopt the crowd he was following.
-Egg
Do remember that this advice, like everything else on the blog, is free.
Dear Egg,
Since the GOP is going to take over the House, why are we worried about letting the Bush tax cuts expire? Wouldn’t the GOP House just extend them as one of the first things on their agenda. Surely the Senate will go along even if the Dems still hold the majority. And Obama isn’t crazy enough to veto the extension. Or is he?
Iggy, currently living is LaLa Land aka California.
Dear Ig,
It’s the uncertainty principle, combined with the recalcitrant ‘Rats who won’t vote for anything that doesn’t include an explicit tax hike on those making $250…, er $200… er, $150,000 (and implicit tax hikes on the remainder of those in the upper half of the income brackets). If you remember, the whole reason why the Bush tax cuts are expiring en masse this year, and some already last year, is because the Republicans couldn’t get to 60 votes in the Senate to make them permanent despite having a majority.
All we have to do is hang on two more years and hope for a Republican President.
-Egg
Speaking of pseudo…
Saw a pal yesterday who told me this has been the WORST summer he remembers. Allergies/asthma absolutely awful, which matches my observation.
I think it’s the friggin’ ethanol.
Think about it. Since the 1960’s//70’s, what else changed?