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Progressive Economics Fail At The Huffington Post

Posted on | April 27, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Over at SOL/PuffHo, they just don’t get the new Progressive Economics. Jobs are what matter. Product? Not so much. Thus, if the State of Illinois pays for signs with spelling errors, that isn’t a bug, that’s a feature! Workers and materials suppliers will be kept busy moving the location of the typo all around the sign. It’s all about jobs saved or created, man!

It is crucially important to view this as a sign of Progressive economics.

Created? Why, yes! What may superficially appear to be an increase in societal entropy is really all about job opportunities. New bureaucracies will have to be born to create a staff of people who can interpret the increasingly meaningless signs cluttering the landscape.
After a critical mass is reached, a new academic field will emerge: Progressive English Studies. The old, relatively stable form of English will remain, so that the Ruling Class can continue its course of leisure and oppression of the common dogs, but those common dogs will be increasingly fragmented, divided, and unable to manage parties or tea, much less Tea Parties.
Full circle, then: this humble sign in Illinois, far from a sign of stupidity, is a harbinger of winning the future, full employment, and portion controlled servings.
Yeah, Progress: yeah!

Lest you think this post pure snark, check out the new line of street sign furniture.

Update: linked at House of Eratosthenes.

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Comments

  • Joe

    Forget about the Huffington Post, progressive economics are failing everywhere.

    Meet our new friend: Obamaflation! http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=27188 You have to remember the salad days of the Carter Administration to really appreciate that you have met this character before.

  • http://twitter.com/isleofyouth PhilipJames

    I don’t want to take away from the main thought of this post, but I am mistaken or is the state name spelled incorrectly? Illinos???
    I am Canadian, that is why I know… because in Canada we learn about the WORLD and not just our own little corner of the world as narcissistic Americans do… or maybe it is because I am over 50 and we actually got an education in our youth, not interpersonal training…
    it is spelled Illinois. Not Illinos. Or is this a Spanish version because there are so many illegal Hispanic aliens in the US and this is a semi-bilingual sign?

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    And yet you came here and didn’t even read the post — you only looked at the picture.

    I hereby declare you an Honorary American!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Man, Admiral, after reading your posts before and after this one from the last forty-eight hours of so, I must say: You’re On A Roll.

  • Rider I

    I think you boys could have a field day with this. Try your luck.

    The Communist Chinese are following exactly in the Soviets foot steps. From everything from creating a Bloc which is now called the Bric, to trying to implement a single world currency, to literally going on a resource domination campaign.

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    Rider I

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