Science fiction writer Ben Bova wrote:
The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth.

The point that Kornbluth makes is simple, and scary: dumbbells have more children than geniuses. In “The Marching Morons” he carries that idea to its extreme, but logical, conclusion.

Kornbluth tells of a future world that is overrun with dummies: men and women who don’t know anything beyond their own shallow personal interests. They don’t know how their society works, or who is running it. All they care about is their personal — and immediate — gratification.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Public Debt

Eric Janszen  put it this way........
Public debt is nothing more than today’s taxes collected tomorrow, plus interest.
So the next time you hear our fuckin politicians talk how they want to spend money for wars, tax breaks for home buyers, foodstamps, healthcare, buying car companies, etc.... try to think what it will be like when we have to start paying for the $13,000,000,000,000.00 we already owe.
Or can we just walk away or file bankruptcy?
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