Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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Vulture in last night's TV show: "Well of course they add up. I was someone who ran businesses for 25 years, and balanced the budget."
No, Vulture. No. No. No. No. Exactly not.** Precisely not. Diametrically not. Your way of running a business into the ground was the exact opposite of "balancing the budget". You ran Bain by borrowing and betting, not by balancing. Leverage and debt were your tools, your dynamite, your wrecking ball.
Admittedly your background is perfect preparation for running post-1989 America. It puts you directly in line with the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama way of doing things.
GODDAMNIT ALL TO FUCKING HELL. WE DESERVE BETTER. JUST FUCKING ONCE WE DESERVE A FUCKING PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT SERVE FUCKING GOLDMAN.
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** Footnote: 'Exactly not' is undoubtedly a strange phrase, but it's been stuck in my head since college. German 101 was taught by Fräulein Dey, who came from Germany and had a typical rigid Kraut temperament. Whenever a hapless American mispronounced a word or misused a Weak Adjectival Declension, Fräulein Dey would shout: "No! No! No! Exssoctly not! Chust not!" I suspect she was internally translating "Nein! Nein! Nein! Ganz nicht! Gar nicht!"
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