GOP economy: We are like lobsters, slowly being boiled to death

[Democrats_win]

"If you throw a lobster into boiling water, they say, it will immediately try to get out. But if you start with cold water and gradually increase the temperature, the lobster fails to detect the incremental change before it is cooked."

This is what's happening to the American family. From health care costs, to fuel costs to the removal of government safety nets, the American family may not notice but the GOP wants it all, and they want you to have nothing.

[Deja Q]

1. But GOP politicians claim they are pro-family. What gives?

[Jim Sagle]

2. Maybe they're lying?

:shrug:

[kliljedahl]

3. Politician? Lie?

What are the odds?


http://www.kliljedahl.net

[tnlefty]

4. Years ago I saw a segment on Martha Stewart's program in

which she was gonna cook some lobsters. She added a liter of vodka to the water and then began heating it up. She said something like, 'the vodka will help to relax them and they won't realize they're being cooked', and I just about fell off of my bed laughing.

During the past few years of Dimson** I've taken that thinking to heart and I drink beer or wine every night so that I have a better chance of sleeping without worrying. When we head off of the economic cliff if I'm a little inebriated, maybe it won't hurt quite so bad.