re: #24 cliffster

You don’t like the messenger, and perhaps you think that the analogy is over the top. But there is no escaping the fact that the economy is in trouble, and that the “Let’s spend a bunch of money and also let’s create more entitlements” solution is destructive. And the fact that it might make it look good in the short term is worse. Again, I can bust out my credit card and make it look like I am extremely successful for a few years, but it’s eventually going to screw me.

The analogy is not over the top… it is wrong, historically wrong… it’s the Hollywood version of Roman history… the type of stuff that John Q. Public remembers as history, because they watched to many gladiator movies, to many passion of Christ movies, to many…

That’s why this shit works so much of the time… jackasses listening who know squat about the general history of the world, or even our own country.