Dear Governor Pawlenty: I noticed a slight misstatement in the paper this morning. You said something about “This is just a spit in the ocean”, regarding your proposal to balance the state budget by doing everything except the obvious and sensible thing of raising taxes. I think you meant to say, “I am just a spit in the ocean.” Or, possibly, “I spit on Minnesota.” Or, “I think my spit is more valuable than the lives of the poor, the hungry, the homeless, and the sick.”
I appreciate your updating of that tired, old Christian morality. It’s time that Christians got on board with corporate America and the realities of life. After all, the sick, the poor, the hungry, they’ll always be with us, right? Plus, they're very limited in their ability to provide campaign funding. Whereas corporations have nearly unlimited funding available to provide to eager politicians who will work hard to make sure that corporations are free to do business the way they see fit, unencumbered by taxes or regulations. If that means a little toxic waste here or there, hey, that's the price of doing business, right? As long as it's not in MY backyard!
Way to go, T-Paw.
Sincerely,
Beelzebub
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- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
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