Ron Johnson, a Republican running for Feingold’s Senate seat in Wisconsin, says America is becoming Greece, collapsing in financial crisis.
True? There is this fact to add to the mix. Over at super economics blogger Megan McArdle’s web page, a commenter complained, in another context, that government tends to think of “ever-increasing spending” as “some sort of natural law we have no control over.”
To which another commenter, Rob Lyman, replied: “It’s not a natural law, but it is just as inevitable as a Greek tragedy. I mean, Oedipus didn’t have to sleep with his mother, he just got a ‘Strengthening Our Communities by Strengthening Our Families’ grant from HHS to do it.”
Alas, alas! How terrible to know, Tiresias moaned, when it does not help the knower.
September 1st, 2010 | 3:03 pm
Or to put it another way, it was inevitable because of who Oedipus was. And I suspect boneheaded, counterproductive responses to our economic situation are inevitable because of who we’ve become, as a people.
September 1st, 2010 | 6:29 pm
From what I read, Oedipus and Tiresias appear to have their own problems so I can’t see how they could ever hope to master head any body’s economic situation?
September 2nd, 2010 | 10:57 am
Ron Johnson can afford to say such things. He has about as much chance of being elected as a moose has of surviving in the same room with Sarah Palin.
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