tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post7151300727948142925..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Breaking News: Alphabet To Be PrivatizedKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-43750199289428209432013-02-04T17:09:50.392-05:002013-02-04T17:09:50.392-05:00Privatizing the alphabet might be beneficial. It ...Privatizing the alphabet might be beneficial. It would be A-OK if I never eat another M&M, take an IQ test, shoot a BB gun, or likely get an F in differential calculus. And wouldn't life be better without the CIA, DOD, FBI and KKK?<br />As for cornering the market on punctuation marks, it could be a bit asterisk-y. I mean, you go in for your annual colonoscopy, you might get a semi-colonoscopy. Maybe you end up in a higher tax "bracket"? And just suppose males started to have monthly periods--there'd be bloody riots!!4Runnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02582762546159637023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-53630714194584040002013-02-04T15:22:33.870-05:002013-02-04T15:22:33.870-05:00Here's the plan:
Get Nader to privatize the ...Here's the plan: <br /><br />Get Nader to privatize the numbers 0 through 9. Only people with incomes less than, say, $99,000 will be allowed free usage of the numbers. Higher incomes will pay a small fee calculated according to the factor of income disparity between the minimum wage and the average CEO income for the Top 500 corporations, this "wage disparity tax" to be dedicated to the maintenance of Medicare for all.<br /><br />Some friendly congresscriter could propose a "How Does It Feel" bill requiring the "disparity factor," as it rises or falls, to be printed as part every weather report, something like the way they keep us alert to the wind chill. <br /><br />Next, we corner the market on punctuation marks – same terms, however, the money collected dedicated to create well paid jobs repairing the nation's infrastructure and advancing green over carbon technology.<br /><br />I guarantee a healthier, happier population by 2016, by which time most of the country, in gratitude for the sponsors of these developments, will be voting Third Party.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-64482708729592220022013-02-04T13:04:30.352-05:002013-02-04T13:04:30.352-05:00@Elizabeth--
I would call this brilliant satire, ...@Elizabeth--<br /><br />I would call this brilliant satire, but it's far too close to being a possible truth. So I would call this brilliant investigative reporting, instead.<br /><br />After all, if segments of the human genome can be patented by private entities, why not the alphabet?<br /><br />http://www.genome.gov/19016590<br /><br />I'm sure that there's a huge team of media lawyers working on this idea at this very moment.Zeenoreply@blogger.com