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Outsourcing my feelings about Sylvia Burwell to a professional:
These are the two main attractions in your American Economic Virtual Menagerie. Over here, we have the financial-services sector, represented by a large basket of writhing cobras. And over here we have your Walmart, represented by a tiny iron cage filled with rabid vampire bats. Now, if you’re watching this at home on Animal Planet, you will note that Jack Lew, who used to be the director of the Office Of Management And Budget, and who now is likely to become the Secretary Of The Treasury, with a stop as White House chief-of staff along the way, comes from the first of these deadly assemblages. The new nominee to head OMB comes from the second one. To quote The Master, as regards this administration’s personnel policies as regards its economic team, show me someone who’s not a parasite, and I’ll say a prayer for him…
But, hey, there’s the happy fact that it’ll be a double-XX carrier advising the President on which social classes can best be sacrificed to the Great God Austerity. Yay, team…
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