AN IM CONVERSATION WITH THOMAS JEFFERSON
tonybock: What’s good, Mr. President?
TJEFF1776: No mucho…just finished a mean game of Hearts with Tupac, Abe Lincoln and Albert Einstein… I schooled ‘em…
tonybock: Wow…
TJEFF1776: I’ve got a new declaration for ‘yo ass 2…
tonybock: What’s that?
TJEFF1776: We hold these brews to be self-evident…
tonybock: Good one.
TJEFF1776: :-)
tonybock: You heard what’s goin’ on down here?
TJEFF1776: Naw…I ain’t checked in since the last “Sopranos”… was he killed or what?
tonybock: Wait for the movie…
TJEFF1776: Damn! But he wasn’t killed you don’t think?
tonybock: Don’t think so… Look, some crazy stuff is happening right now… Seemed like you should know…
TJEFF1776: Hold up, Einstein is double dipping! Party foul! They call this heaven for a reason, the least the man can do is mind others dip space!
TJEFF1776: I’m back… Okay, what’s the story? If this is about Clay Aiken being gay, well that’s old news.
tonybock: Basically, they’re voting in Congress on whether or not to give the Sec. of the Treasury control of a $700 Billion dollar Wall Street bailout plan.
TJEFF1776: $700 billion?
tonybock: Yah.
TJEFF1776: The financial experts are saying they must do it to avert catastrophe?
tonybock: Yah. They seem pretty concerned about it.
TJEFF1776: Well as long as there’s appropriate legal and congressional oversight.
tonybock: That’s the thing about it…there ain’t.
TJEFF1776: Wha wha wha?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
tonybock: I know.
TJEFF1776: $700 billy? And no oversight? Is this a Whig scheme, or something cooked up by the Federalists?
tonybock: Uhm… Neither.
TJEFF1776: “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
TJEFF1776: I dropped that. In 1816, ‘holmes.
tonybock: True, true…
TJEFF1776: There’s about to be an election, too, no?
tonybock: Yep.
TJEFF1776: Well, what are the major candidates saying about it?
tonybock: Oh, they don’t really know…kinda’ changes each day.
TJEFF1776: Both are economic experts, though?
tonybock: Uhm…
TJEFF1776: Neither are? Surely they picked Vice Presidential candidates who’s expertise was in the economic realm…
tonybock: (uncomfortable silence)
TJEFF1776: But they didn’t…
tonybock: Right-o. We’re kinda’ fucked!
TJEFF1776: Sure sounds like it.
tonybock: Might be Depression II around here.
TJEFF1776: No offense, dude, but this whole chat has been kind of a downer. Think I’m gonna hit the sauna for a bit. Then maybe check out some of that Louis Armstrong/James Brown show later on. Y’all are gonna have to sort this one out on your own.
tonybock: Cool.
TJEFF1776: Good luck - there’s always revolution!
tonybock: Late, late.
TJEFF1776: TJ…OUT!
