Thursday, May 21, 2009
Socialism Watch
“There’s a reason why Disney World is the happiest place on Earth: The people who go there are on vacation,” said Grayson, a freshman who counts Orlando as part of his home district. “Honestly, as much as I appreciate this job and as much as I enjoy it, the best days of my life are and always have been the days I’m on vacation.”
Seriously, a congressman said this.
12 Comments:
By 
, at
Thu May 21, 09:48:00 AM:
Hopefully, the Congress will shut up, come to their senses, and stop passing new laws before they fatally wound the country.
By , at
Thu May 21, 10:15:00 AM:
"...the best days of my life are and always have been the days I’m on vacation.”
Why doesn't he go on one now and leave the businesses of the US alone.
TH is always pointing out the immense difference in stock market returns while Congress is in session versus when it is out.
"Get out of my way!"
DTG in NNJ
By 
TOF, at
Thu May 21, 10:58:00 AM:
You have to wonder about the mentality of the people who put him in Congress.
By , at
Thu May 21, 11:23:00 AM:
Get with the program. Be like Europe!! We really, really need several more liberal Supreme Justices for The One's World View!!Free houses, expensive cheap electric green cars, paid vacation, and double paid for government and union workers. Comrades unite, support ACORN/Obama/Biden/Pelosi/Reid!!!
By , at
Thu May 21, 11:29:00 AM:
"There’s a reason why Disney World is the happiest place on Earth."
Yes, there is. It's because that's where Mickey and Donald live. And since, the "Congressional Braintrust" is the ultimate Mickey Mouse organization, it stands to reason that their ideas will bring happiness to us all.
Go, Mickey!!!
Hangtown Bob
By , at
Thu May 21, 11:33:00 AM:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” -C.S. Lewis
By Georg Felis, at
Thu May 21, 01:29:00 PM:
I too would like to vacation at Disney World. But unlike the good Representative, I cannot vote myself this benefit. So I guess I’ll just have to save for it, like NORMAL PEOPLE! Now that he has offered Circuses to his constituents, to make the circle complete, he will need to offer them Bread. *sigh* My Bread.
By , at
Thu May 21, 01:59:00 PM:
If the government is going to guarantee free vacations, part of their health care plan I suppose, I'm against it unless it comes with a gift basket. And it better include free beer and rubbers.
M.E.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Thu May 21, 04:55:00 PM:
Funny how: (1) TH has Disney as a blog advertisement banner and (2) so many grumpy ol dumbass wingnut white men "anonymous" or fake name comments. Both are ironic and snicker-worthy. Being anonymous keeps one safe from neighbors, employees, colleagues, random people who'd likely want to frag/beat you up on general principal...lol
TH friends, relatives etc might recall a move a number of years ago in Va. (and here in Md) to use state fiat to force most school districts to consider some sort of year-long school schedule (short 20 vacations interspersed through the calendar rather than one long summer vacation). Interestingly, the teacher unions were ambivalent and never mad e a stance. It was lobbying by all sorts of vacation-related business groups which tippd the balance and killed it. Lesson: stop making stupid socialism generalizations, TH...
By , at
Thu May 21, 05:58:00 PM:
Incoherence reaches a new level. CC, repeat after me: "I will not drink before posting".
By , at
Fri May 22, 11:28:00 AM:
Frankly, I've been to Disney World and I thought it was miserable. Standing in lines, crowds, everything was overpriced.
Some Shangri-La, huh?
Vacations are pleasant, of course, but work and achievement give meaning to our lives. Spoken like a true looter.
And the exact quote is: "Get the Hell out of my way!" - John Galt
-David
By Tman, at
Fri May 22, 09:13:00 PM:
The best thing that could happen to our economy right now is if every last Senate and Representative could sent on a vacation for the next three years.
And take BO and the Family with 'em.
They can come back after the rest of us rebuild the place and then they can try and destroy the place with Universal healthcare.
At least this way, we'd have a fighting chance.
