'two legs good"

"Obama will seek mandatory budget constraints. The president plans to propose using across- the- board spending cuts to offset funding for any new tax cuts or government initiatives." If you need a lay person’s translation for these 2 sentences from a prominent national newspaper catering to the wealthy, it’s - ‘2 legs good, four legs bad.’ An additional sentence in this paper’s blurb reads, "Under the plan, enacted as a law, pay-as-you-go rules - which were instituted in 1990 but allowed to lapse in 2003 - would return with teeth that Democrats didn’t include when they reimposed the rules in 2007." If you need a lay person’s translation for this sentence, it’s -‘all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.’

Recall George Orwell’s 1946 classic Animal Farm. Animals led by the pigs take over a farm from the humans. All is not what it seems as time unfolds on the farm run by pig Napoleon who succeeds pig Snowball. The seven commandments of living are eventually turned upside down (or inside out). The two legged enemy becomes a two legged friend. Clothes, a bed and alcohol once verboten become routine. Murder of fellow animals once forbidden becomes common. And finally, a hierarchy establishes itself becoming in effect a dictatorship.

Napoleon’s now on Capital Hill. Nothing is as is spoken or as it seems. Anything Obama says is to be taken to mean its exact opposite, to exist in contradiction or to leave the listener thinking it is true. "Spending cuts will offset funding for new tax cuts or government initiatives"? Napoleon couldn’t have said it better. The hand that giveth intends to take away whatever it giveth without the receiver figuring out what prestidigitation occurred. What could pay-as-you-go mean other than what has already occurred as pay outs, stimulus spending, bail outs, subsidies and take overs with theft from the taxpayers now and into the future?

Yes, the future of American Animal Farm looks bleak.