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The G-String 20

Posted on | June 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

While exotic dancers are feeling pinched financially from the economic downturn in Louisiana, more public dancers gather for another ecdysiaster in Toronto.

Via Insty, Mead at AEI falls short of respect for the undertaking:

These summit meetings of world leaders date back for a generation; they have always gotten lots of coverage in the serious press, and they have almost never meant anything or gotten anything done. World leaders like them because they provide a platform that lets presidents and prime ministers look like statesmen instead of politicians. Bureaucrats adore them because position papers must be written and revised and many obscure officials must rack up air miles preparing compromises and talking points for communiques and declarations. It doesn’t matter to the bureaucrats that the declarations have no binding force and that countries who sign onto them will generally go on and do exactly what they would have done had no declaration ever been made. Process! Paper! Junkets!

Dan Mitchell at Big Government calls for poxes on all houses. The descriptions of what constitutes responsibility are bizarre, “David Cameron’s proposal to boost the U.K.’s value-added tax from 17.5 percent to 20 percent is supposedly a sign of austerity” and climax in a quote from the Christian Science Monitor that I cannot parse:

“…the overall effect of national austerity in the EU will harm recovery. They are joined by US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, investor George Soros, and Nobel laureate and columnist Paul Krugman, among others, arguing that austerity works against growth, and may lead to a recessionary spiral.”

The notion comes somewhat against growth if the Geithners, Soroses, and Krugmans represent some kind of abstract drug pusher, and “works against growth” means that their pool of addicts may shrink. Discuss.

Finally, via Drudge, these absurd chemical notion of mine is bolstered by the fact that these proceedings have been legally bolstered by laws only the likes of Napolitano and Holder could love:

The Ontario government secretly passed legislation giving police sweeping new powers for the duration of the G8 and G20 summits.
Police are now able to jail anyone who refuses to furnish identification and submit to a search while within five metres of a designated security zone in downtown Toronto.
Critics reacted furiously to the new rules, which remained unpublicized until Thursday when a 32 year-old man was arrested in Toronto for refusing to show ID to police.
New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos said Friday the provincial Liberals created a “Kafka-esque” situation where people could be arrested for violating rules they didn’t know existed.

Kafka is left in the dust, and things enter the realm of the Onion-esque when the Peggy West reaction to the new security regime are included. Plucked from her humble Milwaukee roots by the US G-20 delegation, in the name of bolstering the US’s egalitarian cred, she had this to say when she saw the Canadian police working out on the citizenry:

Well, I thought that Arizona meant “arid-zone-a”, but this is really a much cooler climate, which is better for my hair. And I really object to the SB1080 legislation and all these cops. What if they really can’t tell how important us visitors are? Well, at least we’re finally doing something about that border problem. When do I get to meet Jan Brewer and tell her how wrong she is? Oh, and I wish people on blogs would quit picking on me. I’m hungry. Is there a Subway nearby?

(The last portion is completely fictional.)

Category: Economics

Comments

6 Responses to “The G-String 20”

  1. Jack
    June 26th, 2010 @ 9:53 pm

    AolNews- Jan Brewer is racist!

    Comments by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer that most illegal immigrants enter the United States to smuggle drugs rather than seek work have prompted a wave of criticism….

    http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/arizona-governor-jan-brewers-immigration-comments-draw-fierce-criticism/19532318?ncid=bannadusaolp00000044

  2. Jack
    June 26th, 2010 @ 5:53 pm

    AolNews- Jan Brewer is racist!

    Comments by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer that most illegal immigrants enter the United States to smuggle drugs rather than seek work have prompted a wave of criticism….

    http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/arizona-governor-jan-brewers-immigration-comments-draw-fierce-criticism/19532318?ncid=bannadusaolp00000044

  3. Adobe Walls
    June 26th, 2010 @ 10:20 pm

    And to think all this time I thought the purpose of “Economic Summits” was just to give the anarchists some thing to look forward to.

  4. Adobe Walls
    June 26th, 2010 @ 6:20 pm

    And to think all this time I thought the purpose of “Economic Summits” was just to give the anarchists some thing to look forward to.

  5. callingallcomets
    June 26th, 2010 @ 11:09 pm

    Well at least Cameron is making a start. There are tax increases but also a freeze on public sector pay and an initial tranche of govt spending cuts with more to come. Your guy is still in the land of rainbows and unicorns – which is why, I suppose, so many Americans voted for him.
    Our Obama was Tony Blair – hopefully we wont be conned again….

    http://www.theagedp.com/?p=861

  6. callingallcomets
    June 26th, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

    Well at least Cameron is making a start. There are tax increases but also a freeze on public sector pay and an initial tranche of govt spending cuts with more to come. Your guy is still in the land of rainbows and unicorns – which is why, I suppose, so many Americans voted for him.
    Our Obama was Tony Blair – hopefully we wont be conned again….

    http://www.theagedp.com/?p=861