Matt Will
Matt Will
party roots tea
At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
capitalism objectives values
Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
thinking trying something-new
I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.
law ifs
If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
tea racist would-be
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
jobs real government
Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins.
integrity greed democracy
Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
eggs environment throwing
Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.
law bullshit humanity
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.
ghetto dope hands
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.
games phones age
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.
country house doe
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.
reality america people
It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.
two fever littles
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality