Do You Want Any Money Today?
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money,Do you want any money today?
Money, money, money, money, money, money, money,
Nice new bills we giving away.
So go Irving Berlin's music and lyrics from the musical Call Me Madam, which were sung in the original Broadway incarnation by the incomparable Ethel Merman. Nowadays this is the mantra of the credit card industry, which with the complicity of the U.S. government is the embodiment of usury. Meanwhile, Americans stagger under impossible credit card debt, and at the same time the government is trying to find ways to keep everyone spending, like handing out free money. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but you won't hear the candidates for president talking about it.
posted by John M Crowther @ 8:08 AM
5 Comments:
John, if I understand what the economists are saying, the only way our banks and government stay solvent is to borrow enormous amounts of money from the Chinese. Should they one day call in our debt, instead of Starbucks and McDonalds in every neighborhood we may see a General Tso's chicken in every pot and a takeout joint on every corner.
I don't know about your neighborhood, prof, but we already have a take out on every corner where I live.
At the present moment I am living in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Not only don’t we have a Chinese takeout on every corner, we’re so under-privileged we can’t even italicize the way you do. How do you do that?
With html tags (see beneath the comment box). Italics is done by putting the brackets around an i at the start of whatever it is you want to italicize, then ending with brackets around /i.
John, this may be a great country where a woman or an African-American can rise to be President, but let me assure you that privilege still exists. I have preceded many a word above with an HTML i, arrow-head bracketed before and after the word I wish to italicize, and all I get is a rude message that says --Your HTML cannot be accepted. Tag is not closed. Why? Maybe it's because I live in Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and not the suburbs with the rich lobbyists who run this country. Maybe it's age or gender discrimination. Who knows? Am I the only one out there who wants to be but cannot be emphatic?
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