The incandescent stupidity of Virginian Pilot editor Donny Luzzatto has to be seen to be believed. In today’s paper, complaining about the fact that the US has not built any grand monuments, highway systems or gone back to the moon, he attributes this lack to …. (wait for it) money!
Having spent the public’s money like drunken editors (sailors spend their own money) during the Bush years and quintupling down during the Obama years, I am persuaded that this pile of towering ignorance is willful. It can’t be an accident; otherwise Donny would be right – like a stopped clock – at least some time.
He refers back to the grand public projects of the FDR administration and to the interstate highway system initiated by Eisenhower. Quick, boys and girls, what was different about those administrations and those of today? Did they throw money around? Well, FDR did by Ike certainly didn’t.
I’ll give you a hint: what does it take to build a dam, an interstate highway, a bridge, virtually anything except that temporary lemonade stand on the corner? Money, certainly … but money burns a virtual hole in the pockets of the criminal class in Washington who view billions as a rounding error.
What’s that, you say? Permits from the EPA, the Corps of Engineers, the approval of the courts? You say that takes years if not decades to get something built? You say that people who are young when they propose a project can die of old age before all the permits are in place? You say that “shovel ready” is a stupid slogan only believed in by the invincibly ignorant dolts who earn their daily bread writing for the Virginian Pilot?
Go to the head of the class, you smarty, you. Invincible ignorance; it’s right there in the job description.
Having spent the public’s money like drunken editors (sailors spend their own money) during the Bush years and quintupling down during the Obama years, I am persuaded that this pile of towering ignorance is willful. It can’t be an accident; otherwise Donny would be right – like a stopped clock – at least some time.
He refers back to the grand public projects of the FDR administration and to the interstate highway system initiated by Eisenhower. Quick, boys and girls, what was different about those administrations and those of today? Did they throw money around? Well, FDR did by Ike certainly didn’t.
I’ll give you a hint: what does it take to build a dam, an interstate highway, a bridge, virtually anything except that temporary lemonade stand on the corner? Money, certainly … but money burns a virtual hole in the pockets of the criminal class in Washington who view billions as a rounding error.
What’s that, you say? Permits from the EPA, the Corps of Engineers, the approval of the courts? You say that takes years if not decades to get something built? You say that people who are young when they propose a project can die of old age before all the permits are in place? You say that “shovel ready” is a stupid slogan only believed in by the invincibly ignorant dolts who earn their daily bread writing for the Virginian Pilot?
Go to the head of the class, you smarty, you. Invincible ignorance; it’s right there in the job description.
UPDATE: Comments from FreeRepublic
What can one say?
Those that can not handle the punishing rigors of a English degree.....go for a Journalism degree. It is basically the Parks and Recreation degree for those that don’t like shovels.
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