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Bring 'em on
Jul. 3rd, 2003 10:13 amWhat can I say? Unemployment is up to 6.4% (May revised).
Hey, Mr. Bush here's an idea: bring back the draft. Draft a bunch of young people. That will lower the unemployment rate. Then if you send them off to get killed in some other country the unemployment rate will stay down because the labor force will permanently shrink. My very rough calculation is that you'd need to draft 183,000 to drop the unemployment rate by 1%. So if you pull in half a million or so you should be set on the economic front. Plus, then you'll have the troops to dream up another war, bring the approval ratings back up, provide more missile orders to your friends' companies, provide more rebuilding contracts for your friends' companies, and make the world safe for mass marketing.
I've always liked reading farces or watching them in movies. I don't think it's appropriate to act them out on a global scale.
"Yossarian, try eating the rest of this chocolate-covered cotton for me. Maybe it will taste delicious now." --- Milo in "Catch-22"
Hey, Mr. Bush here's an idea: bring back the draft. Draft a bunch of young people. That will lower the unemployment rate. Then if you send them off to get killed in some other country the unemployment rate will stay down because the labor force will permanently shrink. My very rough calculation is that you'd need to draft 183,000 to drop the unemployment rate by 1%. So if you pull in half a million or so you should be set on the economic front. Plus, then you'll have the troops to dream up another war, bring the approval ratings back up, provide more missile orders to your friends' companies, provide more rebuilding contracts for your friends' companies, and make the world safe for mass marketing.
I've always liked reading farces or watching them in movies. I don't think it's appropriate to act them out on a global scale.
"Yossarian, try eating the rest of this chocolate-covered cotton for me. Maybe it will taste delicious now." --- Milo in "Catch-22"
