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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

-Thomas Hobbes

This Round's on Me

NYC Mayor Bloomberg on the federal economic stimulus plan:

They want to send out a check to everybody to stimulate the economy... I suppose it won't hurt the economy, but it's in many senses like giving a drink to an alcoholic.

Hey, hey, hey... alcohol a depressant. This is a stimulus! It's completely different. Dumbass! (hic!)

By the way, Bloomberg was beat to the analogy by several weeks. TIME's Michael Kinsley:

The experts caution that for maximum stimulus effect, we must be sure to spend it immediately. No squirreling it away for a rainy day. In drinking circles, they call this hair of the dog: to cure a hangover, you have another drink...

My gripe is that telling Americans they need to borrow and spend just a little bit more to get us past this recession—and then reform their ways—is like telling an alcoholic he needs one more drink before sobering up.

All we need is a "spending like a drunken sailor" comment and we'll have this confusing stimulus-depressant-finances analogy wrapped up.

Well, that and a chaser.

Posted by Wulf on February 16, 2008 at 10:07 PM

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-Thomas Hobbes

This Round's on Me

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