Corzine Letters: Asset Monetization of Sex

My Dear Brother Jon,

Plutocrat Corzine, greetings! Your continuing excellent progress as New Jersey's Minister of Public Enlightenment appears to know no bounds. Only a master of the universe could monetize sex. The coronization of birth as death and death as life. A real Triumph of the Will!

Sex has long been seen as an asset subject to monetization. In fact, the monetization of sex, i.e. the exchange of sex for money is this world's oldest profession. So too abortion is a multibillion dollar business whose act only kills an innocent and irrevocably transforms the killer. The Wretched of the Earth (Letter V, p.7) But, Governor Corzine, your asking the people for "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life", to dissect human embryos in return for money is breathtaking in its brilliance: New Jersey's contract with the Devil.

Well done.

It is of course axiomatic that "promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence ..." is the perfect distraction. People cannot be concerned with what they do when they are thinking about what will happen to them.

And the advertising thing, the $150,000 to promote passage of the stem cell and embryo bond contract? Genius, pure Genius. There’s nothing better than frequency and reach to enforce compliance. And, they may think you so generous for it!

But remember, stick with jargon not argument. Stay with words like "hope", "save lives", and "investment". And say stem cell, but never say embryo.

Don't argue because people might think for themselves. And, if you use facts, only use selective facts because facts lead people to think. For instance don't tell them the $450 million, which is really $720 million, in bonds are to be paid from general taxes you can't collect. They might think "if this deal is so good, why not use the project's revenues to pay off its debt?" Or, "this deal must be really risky because a general tax obligation bond is the only thing investors will buy." They might think about the State being bankrupt or how it could be used for schools, childcare or bridges and the like. And, don't talk about the actual amount of money made by the project because they might ask why Rutgers projections, p. 5, show the return to state coffers ( $19.7 million in state taxes) won't begin to cover the cost.

In short keep it "real", keep it fuzzy, but don't let people think about what you mean by "real" and never clarify fuzzy.

Your Affectionate Spirit,
Mephistopheles