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Transitional Economy
Apr. 30th, 2002 03:20 pmSo, I'm dancing around in my pajamas in an empty apartment yelling, "yeah! Motherfucking yeah! I've saved Stevenistan, if those bastards on the politburo pay attention - and they'd better, because otherwise, they're fucked. But goddamn! This new program will turn us around! They said I couldn't do it - Russia certainly couldn't do it - but I did! Ahhhhh, those pricks better not pussy-out on the short-term debt - and they sure as fuck better not write it off - and jesus it's going to be a bitch getting foreign investors after 9/11. . . But holy shit! The new banking system alone, not to mention the circuit judges! And the student programs!!! The student programs!!!!!!!"
There are two elements of this diatribe that are particularly humerous. One is the fact that I seem to curse a hell of a lot more than usual when I get excited, which doesn't happen as often as you might think. In fact, it is almost always directly related to the creation of a new system of government. Nothing gives me the same rush as legislating. Nothing.
The second is that there is no such country as Stevenistan, and never has been.
But fuck that! We'll show those bastards! We'll show them! "Look at the squandered African aid," they say. "Look at the monetary black hole that used to be the USSR." The pricks won't know what's hit 'em when I unveil my devious plan to rework small business loans! It's fucking brilliant! Yeah, budgets 'll be tight for a while, but when my grandchildren are born, they'll be born into a working free-market economy!
::sighs:: Why of all things do I have to love politics?
There are two elements of this diatribe that are particularly humerous. One is the fact that I seem to curse a hell of a lot more than usual when I get excited, which doesn't happen as often as you might think. In fact, it is almost always directly related to the creation of a new system of government. Nothing gives me the same rush as legislating. Nothing.
The second is that there is no such country as Stevenistan, and never has been.
But fuck that! We'll show those bastards! We'll show them! "Look at the squandered African aid," they say. "Look at the monetary black hole that used to be the USSR." The pricks won't know what's hit 'em when I unveil my devious plan to rework small business loans! It's fucking brilliant! Yeah, budgets 'll be tight for a while, but when my grandchildren are born, they'll be born into a working free-market economy!
::sighs:: Why of all things do I have to love politics?
