Obama pays tens of thousands to sit at home

[Bob]

And it is not provided for by federal law.

http://theweek.com/article/index/270256/speedreads-the-obama-administration-is-paying-tens-of-thousands-of-workers-to-stay-at-home

[Kurmugeon]

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;



I am inspired to quote Poetry:



The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-butler-yeats)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.


Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?