Saturday, February 4, 2006

russ lieber with colbert yay videos
-I've invited him to the show many times to debate me many times and he's always chickened out. but tonite to his credit he's here, brave man.
-thank you stephen but I must point out that this is the first time you've asked me here.
-ok. let's keep this civil. ...ok listen, I read your latest pamphlet
-it's a book, ok, it's a book stephen. sounds like arrstd devlpmt*
-hey I don't interrupt you mr. lieber. this is the real word we're talking about, not one of your folk song dragon kingdom drum circles. if we let market forces take their course, companies will pay people- because if they don't people won't be able to buy their products and viceversa.
well
-alright. well. look, I personally am not willing to trust these megacorporazis and nucleoindustrialdeathglomerates to pay people fairly -
-look they tried your idea in russia, minimum wage is just line item communism. alright the government is controlling the economy. we won the cold war mr.lieber fair and square.

*ah- Russ Lieber is a character played by comedian David Cross, seen on Arrested Development" (2003) as... Tobias Fünke

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