The City of Asheville boasted on its web site today another instance of its role in expanding the federal government into welfare statist realms expressly forbidden, if anybody would care to read the Law of the Land. Anyway, the recipe for expanding the federal deficit and justifying remote-control, hyper-administrative intrusion into personal responsibilities is the usual exchange of incantations mumbled in Synergese for high sums offered by alphabet soup.
According to Hal David:
Twenty houses in a row:
Eighty people watch a TV show.
Paper people, cardboard dreams,
how unreal the whole world seems…Can we be living in a world made of papier mache?
Everything is clean and so neat.
Anything that’s wrong can be just swept away.
Spray it with cologne, and the whole world smells sweet.Ice cream cones and candy bars,
swings, and things like bicycles and cars…
There’s a sale on happiness:
You buy two, and it costs less.Can we be living in a world made of papier mache?
Everything is clean and so neat.
Anything that’s wrong can be just swept away.
Spray it with cologne, and the whole world smells sweet.Read the papers. Keep aware
while you’re lounging in your leather chair.
And if things don’t look so good,
shake your head and knock on wood.Can we be living in a world made of papier mache?
Everything is clean and so neat.
Anything that’s wrong can be just swept away.
Spray it with cologne, and the whole world smells sweet,like papier mache.
