Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Pork -- It's For Everyone, Including Obama

From The L.A. Times:

The president's 'solutions' to the economic crisis amount to spending as much as possible for as long as possible.

There's an old joke about a fantastic three-legged pig and a farmer. It comes in many versions. In some tellings, the pig saves the farmer's life. In another, it can talk. And the punch line always comes after a visitor asks the farmer, "So how come he only has three legs?"

"Because," explains the farmer, "you don't want to eat a pig like that all at once."

More and more, it seems that the Obama administration has just that attitude toward the economic crisis: doling out pork for as long as possible.

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My Comment: I love the joke at the beginning of this article.

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