The LOANERSHIP Society

One my guests here, the wonderfully talented Zen Comix, coined a term that is most worthy of repetition at every opportunity. Yes, it's that brilliant subject line: The Loanership Society.

I mentioned this over at Demagogue so as not to lose this gem of a meme in the shuffle of daily atrocities flooding out of The Beltway, and Frederik Maryland took the bait with some enthusiasm.


As we all know, Bush says "ownership society" because he can't pronounce oligarchy. Well, that, plus the fact his half-wit constituency has no idea what an oligarchy is. Come to think of it, Bush may not know either, although we can be certain Condi mentioned it to him when harping on her favorite subject, Russia.

LOANERSHIP SOCIETY represents the cold, hard truth. How dare Bush and his Republican Congress bankrupt America with tax cuts for the rich only to claim everyone else needs to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps to become an "ownership society."

Well, Mr. Bush, thanks to your recklessness with the American economy, such a feat is impossible. Every dime Bush believes is his and his buddies' is one he stole from our children and our children's children for God only knows how many generations to come.

Bush's "ownership society" is a verbal trick of the worst kind, a propaganda ploy from the vapid, greedy head of Frank Luntz and the Ayn Rand Squad at the CATO Institute. Like everything else oozing forth from the Bush Regime, it's an empty platitude used to hide a disturbing truth; in the this case, one used to serve as a gilded fig leaf to hide a massive deficit which places America's economic security at considerable risk.

If you take one positive thing from my surly blog this weekend, take this:

LOANERSHIP SOCIETY

Rinse. Repeat.
Then REPEAT again and again and again.