"I don't know. When Tinyman was a congressman, he seemed to be all but alone in voting how I wanted everyone to vote, on the WTO and US involvement in it, in gun control, voting against nuclear weapons research... But it's clear that now he's changed, and my guess is that there is more than the election year spotlight behind it."
"It should be obvious to everyone that there exists a secret government, and that they have chosen Tinyman to be their inarticulate, charismatic, genuinely and refreshingly ignorant figurehead."
"My name is Man: Tiny Man, and I stand where you think I should on all the tough issues. When I was 21, George Bush declared war against Iraq. I wanted to enroll, but I was too engrossed in my studies. An honor roll student, I had a dodecatuple major in finance, history, political science, advertising, business, technical writing, drama, rhetoric, creative writing, golf, psychology, and accounting; coupled with a icosatuple minor in basket weaving, aviation, chemistry, pre-law, pre-med, graphic design, Russian, math, speech communications, Hebrew, sociology, social engineering, French, swimming, badminton, Spanish, computer science, library science, juggling, and leisure studies. I am your man in times of crisis. And now, with eleven percent of Americans out of work, and, of the remaining 89 percent, 48 percent earning less than a living wage (and, of those, 27 percent living below the poverty level), and of the remaining 41 percent, 22 percent working for temporary or part-time positions in which they can receive no benefits and are guaranteed not even continued employment, 18 of the remaining 19 percent living off their parents, and the remaining 1 percent receiving an income equivalent to that of the aforementioned 99 percent, in sum total, rather than in average. Obviously the system needs a little twiddling. With my tax cut, poorer Americans will have a fraction more to spend, and this will help build the economy.
SB