Now Hiring. Wanted: People Dedicated To Putting People Out Of Work (you couldn't make this up)

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Employment Opportunities with CRFB

(Fix the Fiat? Brought to you by The Committee to Neuter the Middle Class) 

Maya MacGuineas, bringing new meaning to Con-text. 

They have posted the following job opportunities on their website:

Development Manager/Grant Writer 

Economic Research Associate

Policy Analyst  

Research/Program Associate

 ... and they'd like to hire YOU to help keep Americans from expressing their own fiat.

Creative Unemployment Program?  How ingenious!

If you're confused, just ignore that pesky voice of logic, and don't ask where they get the $ to pay you to put people out of work.

And please donate what little salary you're allowed. It takes a lot of $ to deny citizens access to their own fiat.

It all sounds similar to a once-famous poem, thanking peasants for doing dumb stuff on-command, for incompetent aristocrats.

Debt Recharge of the Lights Out Brigade 

Into the valley of semantic debt charged the Lights Out Brigade

Theirs not to wonder why?

Theirs just to screw their entire lineage ... and die?

We could take a different approach you know, from the ground up, but  it would require thinking (i.e. balancing a cognitive deficit).