The kids were, as usual, complaining about how I get bacon and eggs with fresh-squeezed orange juice, but they have to eat plain, pasty gruel, and how that was so unfair to them. I was explaining to them for the thousandth time that life is unfair, but that if one is big enough, powerful enough, mean enough and enough of a thieving little bastard (like me, the federal government and the Federal Reserve), one can sometimes tip the playing field so it is a little fairer to me, and if they don't believe me, then consider that all the money in their college funds and piggy banks has all been replaced by IOUs from me.
The bad news is that their money is all gone, but the good news is that I have effectively doubled our family income if one is allowed (like the government and Social Security) to double-count the money I borrowed from them as still being in their accounts, although I spent it! Accounting magic!
The Mogambo Guru explains what happened to the Social Security trust fund and other feats of accounting prestidigitation.
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