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50 Gigabucks For Infrastructure Gives Us The Vapors

Posted on | September 6, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ goes for the Einstein reaction to yet another hit on the Cosmic Credit card for infrastructure spending.
However, the notion of replicating the Lost Decade really gives us the Vapors:
How has this classic track affected Administration policy? Let us deconstruct.

Lyrics Interpretation
I’ve got your picture
Of me and you
You wrote “I love you”
I love you too
I sit there staring and there’s nothing else to do		 In the opening verse, the President establishes an emotional bond with the country. Really deep. The rest of the Administration’s policy in general, and this round of graft bailout stimulus must be seen in this light.
Oh it’s in color
Your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel
And soft as clouds
I often kiss you when there’s no one else around		 We must let the Administration be clear as to the details of the affection. Some say it’s all for show. Others say the President is some kind of radical. We say the emphasis on color, brown, hazel and clouds may point to dreams of chocolate sundae with whipped cream, representing childhood deprivation and, stragely, Keynesian Economics.
I’ve got your picture, I’ve got your picture
I’d like a million of you over myself
I asked the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You’ve got me turning up and turning down and turning in and
turning ’round		 Here the number ‘million’ builds on the dream sequence of the previous verse. In reality, the millions are referred to as ‘decimal dust’ in planning meetings. Far greater numbers like billions are the conscious analog, and trillion is coming into increased usage.
The mention of ‘doctor’ is an obvious ObamaCare reference. The spurious internal X-Ray usage is another red herring for the critics, as they will point to promised savings from trimming waste. However, a study can be pulled from thin air justifying favored wasteful practices as ‘bending the cost curve’, which is true enouch, so long as magnitude only and not direction is under discussion. Control, control, control.
I’m turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think
so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
I’m turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think
so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so		 While some Birther twits will fulminate over this, such distraction is precisely the desired effect of this hyperbole. By hammering ‘turning Japanese’, all meaning is drained from the symbol, rendering it useless to critics.
I’ve got your picture, I’ve got your picture
I’d like a million of them over myself
I want the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You’ve got me turning up and turning down and turning in and
turning ’round		 Repetition is the key to indoctrination, or so they said on JournoList. Repetition is the key to indoctrination, or so they said on JournoList.
I’m turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think
so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
I’m turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think
so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so		 See above.
No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it’s dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
Everyone		 Now it is time to attack the conservative alternative strawman. This idea was later expanded to a full track by U2, namely “Numb”.
That’s why I’m turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I
really think so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
I’m turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think
so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so
(think so think so think so)
Turning Japanese I think I’m turning Japanese I really think so		 Through sufficient repetition, the public can be trained not only to think that turning Japanese is a good thing, but, indeed that they wanted it all along! Sad little sheep, aren’t they. But keep an eye on those dodgy Tea Party people, now.
Category: Barack Obama, Farce

Comments

6 Responses to “50 Gigabucks For Infrastructure Gives Us The Vapors”

  1. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 8:12 pm

    A fitting song, since the real message of it is…well they used to say it would make you go blind. This of John Belushi grabbing the hilt of his katana and swinting…

    And what could be more along those lines but showing what a good guy you are by spending other people’s money. Well spending other people’s money, on interest, who are not even born yet, since we are borrowing to do it.

  2. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 4:12 pm

    A fitting song, since the real message of it is…well they used to say it would make you go blind. This of John Belushi grabbing the hilt of his katana and swinting…

    And what could be more along those lines but showing what a good guy you are by spending other people’s money. Well spending other people’s money, on interest, who are not even born yet, since we are borrowing to do it.

  3. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 8:13 pm

    squinting

  4. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 4:13 pm

    squinting

  5. Randy Rager
    September 6th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    And here I thought that was a Wall of Voodoo song.

    This blog never ceases to amaze.

  6. Randy Rager
    September 6th, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    And here I thought that was a Wall of Voodoo song.

    This blog never ceases to amaze.