Don't Say the "M" Word!
A BRIGHTER AMERICAN FUTURE: A Balanced Budget Plan for FY 2019!
Whoever enters here honors me; whoever doesn’t- pleases me.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Live Yet Pre-recorded- Episode LXXIX of:
Don’t Say the “M” Word!
A Silent Radio Hour: Live Yet Pre-Recorded:
“I understand people believe I'm just a statistic
I say to them I'm different”
10th grader, Antwon Rose
POW: We’re back once again!
J: And just to remind all of you listening out there!
POW: Silent radio Jonathan!
D: He’s got you there brother!
R#2: Yeah! Can someone please explain to me what the hell’s silent radio?
POW: A gag! We steam the show via the internet!
R#1: WiFi?
POW: Absolutely!
R#2: From where?
POW: Was working over at Com.com sometime ago! Stole the PassWord or PW!
R#3: Bitchen!
POW: Absolutely! Love that TheMighty On-Line Retail Giant or TMOLRG’s paying for what’s now “our” Free Internet Connection or FIC!
TheRejects: FIC! FIC! FIC! Flick your FIC!
POW: From whom?
TheRejects: Com.com! Com.com! Com.com!
POW: Can you dig it? Anyway! People have to actually read what we’re saying!
R#1: Kinda time consuming if you ask me!
R#3: I don’t think anyone’s asking for your opinion!
R#2: And by the way! All you have is time!
R#3: The only real benefit of being a Reject! No job! No home! Nothing! Yeah! Plenty of time to read!
R#1: Sorry I’ve offended you people! Give me something to read and I’ll go away and read it!
StL: Here! Try this one!
POW: Seem to have more people joining the show? Your name if you might?
StL: Simon the Literate: A Beggar of Books!
D: A Beggar of Books?
StL: Correct! I walk backwards through time and space while gathering books while moving back and forth throughout history!
TheRejects: God damn?
J&D&POW: What the hell?
D: Gotta agree with TheRejects! Walking backwards through time and space! Outta my pay grade!
J: We don’t get paid Drew!
POW: Then why the hell are we still here on Reject Square?
J: Just in case you’ve lost your mind and don’t remember! We can’t leave!
TheRejects: Just like us! Just like us! We can’t leave either!
J: Little different I do believe!
TheRejects: How so?
J: We try to walk away from Reject Square and we actually circle back and end up right where we began!
TheRejects: Just like us! Just like us! We also circle back and end up right where we began!
POW: Wanna jump in here Simon?
StL: I understand your predicament!
J: Quite the pickle don’t you agree?
StL: Quite right!
POW: Might you have some sort of solution then?
StL: Indeed I do!
D: Great!
J: And perhaps you’d be willing to explain all of this to us? Please?
StL: Sorry! I can’t!
D: Quite the Quandary or QtQ!
J: Don’t Drew! Please!
POW: So Simon? Are you unable or unwilling?
D: And Simon says?
POW: Stop it Drew!
StL: Neither!
J&D&POW&TheRejects: What the?
StL: Sorry! None of you are ready for such knowledge! Here’s your book by the way!
R#1: Thanks!
R#2: What’s the title?
R#1: ‘In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness’ by G.L. Gurdjieff.
R#2: Great book! You’re gonna love it! Let me quote just one passage from the book: ‘But we cannot cease to be a slave to external conditions while we remain enslaved inwardly. In order to become free, we must achieve inner freedom. The primary reason for our inner slavery is our ignorance of ourselves. Without self-knowledge, we cannot be free, we cannot govern ourselves. Without understanding the way our machine works, we will always remain a slave, the plaything of the forces that act upon us.’
R#1: Why that particular passage?
R#2: Because all of us here are slaves because we, deep in “our” hearts, down to the core of “our” being, believe in the system which placed us in Reject Square!
Mr.SASMO: And until we reject that system as false! Here we stay!
POW: Good to see you made it SASMO!
Mr.SASMO: “Mr.” SASMO to you Warren!
POW: Very well! And onto “our” long awaited report on the proposed Republican budget of 2019! “Mr.” SASMO, please!
A BRIGHTER AMERICAN FUTURE: A Balanced Budget Plan for FY 2019!
Mr.SASMO: I’d like to read the opening of the Republican Budget Plan or RBP for 2019! ‘Foundational to the conservative philosophy for governing is the belief that the United States of America is truly exceptional. Built out of optimism more than 250 years ago, the grand American experiment continues to inspire confidence in the future. And history has time and again proven that it is the American people who continue to truly make this nation thrive.’
R#1: I’m not thriving! Are you?
R#3: Been awhile I can say!
R#2: And I really don’t feel overly exceptional at this particular moment in my life!
R#1: Must have been something she ate?
R#3: Or perhaps something she didn’t eat?
R#2: All the same! Not really into the Grand American Experiment or GAE thank you very much!
Mr.SASMO: Continuing: ‘While America’s future has always appeared bright, current fiscal challenges threaten to make the outlook seem bleak. For years, the Federal Government’s finances have reflected irresponsible imbalance, steadily casting a darker and larger shadow on the hopes of future prosperity.’
R#1: My Current Fiscal Challenge or CFC isn’t looking too rosy either!
R#3: You only have yourself to blame!
R#1: My job was “outsourced” to God damn India! Not my fault!
R#3: Perhaps if you’d been willing to give a little more at the Negotiation Table or NT your software company might have stayed? Ever think about that?
R#1: All the time!
R#3: So what was the problem?
R#1: God damned Multi-National or MN wanted to pay us two bucks an hour! Chop health-care in half! Give up “our” pensions and profit-sharing and throw-in Mandatory Over Time or MOT for regular pay!
R#3: Sorry! My mistake!
Mr.SASMO: Furthermore! ‘House Republicans have long warned that Congress must act in response to the warning signs and create a sustainable path for the future. While the task is daunting and worsened by years of inaction, it is possible to change the current course and secure a bright future for generations to come. However, in order to change course in the long-term, Congress must make tough decisions about the nation’s finances in the short-term.’
R#2: Holy Shit or HS! Here comes “their” terms!
Mr.SASMO: ‘The Budget for a Brighter American Future offers a responsible plan to get America back on track. Adopting substantive spending restraint coupled with policies promoting significant economic growth, the fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget resolution does the following:’
R#1: Look out! Incoming!
Mr.SASMO: ‘Balances in Nine Years Rising deficits and the growing national debt pose the greatest threat to America’s future prosperity. Through thoughtful reforms and savings to government programs, this budget offers a sustainable spending path that reverses the current trend – responsibly achieving balance in nine years with estimated surpluses of $26 billion in FY 2027 and $142 billion in FY 2028.’
TheRejects: We’re not worthy!
Mr.SASMO: ‘Addresses Mandatory Spending. The Federal Government is spending far more than it takes in.’
J: Just like TheAmazon!
Mr.SASMO: Got that correct Jonathan! Additionally! ‘This increasing disparity is largely due to mandatory – or autopilot – spending, which includes safety-net programs like Medicare and Social Security, as well as the interest on the national debt.
D: I thought military spending was on Auto-Pilot or AP SASMO?
Mr.SASMO: According to the Republicans: ‘Currently comprising the largest share of total spending, mandatory spending’s unchecked growth is driving the rapid rate at which the national debt is accumulating. This budget confronts this harsh reality by including instructions to 11 authorizing committees to achieve at least $302 billion in deficit reduction through reconciliation and recommending reforms to preserve the existence of programs upon which many vulnerable Americans depend, while easing the fiscal burden currently being placed on future generations.
POW: Sounds like Orwellian “DoubleSpeak” or DS to me!
D: “DoubleSpeak” or DS Warren?
POW: DoubleSpeak or DS is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. DoubleSpeak or DS may take the form of euphemisms like “downsizing” for layoffs, “servicing the target” for bombing the hell outta someone or something! In which case! It’s primarily meant to make the truth sound more acceptable. It may also refer to intentional vagueness in language or to actual inversions of meaning. In such cases, DoubleSpeak or DS disguises the nature of the truth. DoubleSpeak or DS is most closely associated with political and/or economic language!
J: Kinda like Amazon!
Mr.SASMO: Better believe it! They’re masters of the art of…
J&D&POW&TheRejects: Don’t Say the “M” word SASMO!
Mr.SASMO: Wouldn’t think of it! Anyway! ‘Continues Economic Growth Building on the success of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’…
R#2: Anyone see any job acts around here?
TheRejects: Not today!
R#2: Anyone see government handouts to the Rich Corporations or RCs?
TheRejects: All the time!
Mr.SASMO: ‘This budget encourages economic growth. It calls for reducing burdensome regulations…’
D: Like clean air to breathe! Unpolluted water to drink! Uncontaminated soil to grow “our” food in!
Mr.SASMO: Yeah! Something of this nature! ‘And suggests other key reforms to government programs in order to sustain and continue growth of the American economy.’
POW: Just gotta love those guys and gals in Congress!
R#3: I know I do!
TheRejects: Quiet!
R#3: Sorry!
Mr.SASMO:‘Encourages Better Government and Greater Accountability. Every tax dollar spent by the Federal Government should reflect good stewardship of hardworking taxpayer resources. Encouraging more responsible use of taxpayer dollars and promoting efficiency and effectiveness, this budget prescribes reforms to sustain vital government programs, identifies and confronts wasteful spending to reduce deficits, and strengthens accountability to generate better outcomes for Americans.
TheRejects: Build more military hardware! We must have more instruments of death!
Mr.SASMO: What they said! ‘Empowers State and Local Governments Respecting the powers granted to state and local governments by the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, this budget acknowledges that some reforms are best decided by those distinct governing authorities. State and local governments have the ability to reform and modernize programs to meet the unique needs of their own citizens.
POW: Slang for ‘Don’t look to DC for anymore money!’
J: The Fed is Dead or FD!
Mr.SASMO: ‘For the purpose of more efficient use of taxpayer dollars, this budget scales back overreach of the Federal Government and restores power to the states in areas such as health care, welfare, environmental regulation, education, workforce development, and transportation.’
POW: And speaking of more efficient use?
J: Yes Warren?
POW: We efficiently must leave “our” program, now! Outta time you see!
J: And with that we must say, to “our” cherished listeners: Drew?
D: BYE BYE!
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To our cherished listeners out there hopefully believing that “our” ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’ which’s live yet pre-recorded formerly at The Spank the Monkey Café in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington of the United States of Here’s Still Hoping for the Fifth Aeon to Finally Come and Save Us All Here or USHSHFAFCSUAH in: America will be back next time! Who knows? I’m Producer Only Warren or POW or Prisoner Of Weirdness here in what’s known as “Reject Square” where we’re now broadcasting live yet pre-recorded and so many thanks once again to “our” cherished listeners who are anticipating another Episode or E of ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’! We’re so sorry that you have to live through these nasty “happenings” taking place daily here in America! I mean to say! Really SORRY! But I wish to thank all of you for tuning in once more while again leaving Any Semblance of Rational Thought or ASRT at the door as for the sake of TheJefferys: How in the hell can you listen to silent radio? Never understood that one but hey folks! We’re back! (Inspirational Pause!) And please cherished “LISTENERS”, again return next time to hopefully Find-Out-the-Facts or FOFs concerning the nature and cause of our Collective Delusion or CD as we Tell Our Tale or TOT of Misery or M here in a land known as America! Please stay safe and always watch out for those Frenzied, Extremely Agitated Regrettables or FEAR who see their own reflection in the Mirrored Sunglasses or MSs of those who would Un-Naturally or UN ridicule our Blessed Way of Life here on Silent Radio or SR! And please! Make sure to thank TheJefferys! And so I’m pretty certain! And Good Night Irene!
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D: Jonathan?
J: Yes Drew?
D: Perhaps we could use a government “hand-out” about this time?
J: Are we a Multi-National Corporation or MNC?
D: No!
J: Then we ain’t gettin’ no government “hand-out” now are we?
D: I guess not!