Predictable Headline.

Just saw this at The Washington Post:

{{rolling eyes}}

Let me see if I can interpret this into language we can all understand.

The stimulus spending means that someone is going to have to pay for it down the road and the wealthy and well connected, cough!, Republicans, don’t want it to be them. They might have to give up their tax cuts that go back to 1980.

Omg, they might take their dishes and relocate to another country!! Cue the fearmongering about all of us losing our jobs to India or Paraguay!!

It’s a bit too late for that, isn’t it?

But they have the money and the propaganda outlets so I’m sure it will only be a matter of days before we start having to care about their feelings more than the brutal austerity they want to impose on us.

Gosh, what might they have done differently? Oh, I don’t know, maybe got out of the game when they had gotten 90% of their wet dreams? Told their employees in the Senate to cut Trump loose as the reports from China were starting to filter in? Compromised on their extreme libertarianism and encouraged a federal response so we wouldn’t be terrified to leave our houses to go back to work?

I know! Maybe they could have exercised the self-control they’re always trying to impose on the rest of us and refrained from taking every last penny of stimulus money they could get their hands on.

So many possibilities. So little effort at doing any of them.

You know they’re going to go straight for the Social Security trust fund, right? Means testing, benefit cuts, asking for sacrifices to prop up the billions in lost 401k retirement funds.

Stay tuned…