Christov December 6th, 2007

O.K., man, thanks for keeping Tony from interrupting. I might contribute, but only if you promise not to send me a coffee-cup. I can steal all the mugs I want from the office, but already have plenty at home. They're, like, ubiquitous and spontaneously generated from a programming blivit in the fabric of the fallen creation-box. Created ex-ceramico. An important doctrine to remember. Just remember the acronym: T_E_A_C_U_P. As soon as I make up the other doctrines, I'll post them, too.

I found Tony's answer surprising, having expected him to conclude that taxpayers have a duty to support sorry-backsided layabouts. Yeah, employment's available for those willing to humble themselves and work at it, or take steps to become better-employed. We're reaping the foulwind of Clinton's NAFTA (enthusiastically supported by that moron Bob Dole), and the idea that's been around since after WWII that the U.S. exists to remedy the world's ills by imposing no import tariffs on overseas manufactured goods. And China. That's more complicated than their sponsoring the Clintons' two terms in the Whitehouse, or the Bush family's purported business dealings there, or Nixon's diplomatism there.

I'll tell you what I do, and this is going to sound naive, chauvinistic, bigoted, and slightly charismatic – whenever I buy something and find the hated, "Made in China" tag thereon, I pray for everyone who's worked on the product. It's my way of subverting the slave labor system. Maybe it's God's way of bringing people he wants prayed for to my attention.

Tony's gonna get booed at the next Dem fundraiser he attends for siding with Paul on the "don't work, don't eat" thing.

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