Day 22, and the reptiles brilliantly offer paper shuffling as a way to solve intergenerational unfairness ...

The pond is truly appreciative of those who bring reports on the musings of the Oreo, which requires a long trip to the outer rings of Oreo loonacy, further than the rings of Saturn ...

But the pond is also prone to sacrifices. This day it has given up on the Caterists ...

... because there's not a single useful joke to be discovered within the standard Caterist rant.

However, while considering matters Caterist, arising from last week's column, the pond would like to place on record Ian Leslie's piece in The Graudian, The sugar conspiracy ...

It's an interesting read, and the pond regrets not being able to mention it in the context of the Caterist piece.

On the other hand, mentioning suggests that Caterists offer reasonable and rational arguments which might be discussed and refuted, as opposed to the standard set of ideological postures to be expected from the head of an organisation which lives on the subsidy of assorted private interest groups, the Liberal party and the federal government's system of grants for bludgers ...

Instead of joining the Caterists in a bit of union bashing, the pond was instead drawn to two important missives from the reptile editorial bunker ...

The first concerns a VFT. The reptiles have been much excited about the prospect of a VFT and have featured it these last few days on the front page ... but it seems that's only so the reptiles can pour cold water on the idea ...

Sheesh, another agile, innovative thingie bites the dust. It seems the pond can die safe in the knowledge that its only encounters with VFT technology will have been in China, Japan, Germany, France, Belgium and Holland ...

Which is perhaps just as well because who knows how well a VFT using Victorian copper and multi-node technology would work ...

But that leaves the future a little under-done. Stagnation, misery and suffering.

The reptiles, seizing on that story by David Uren, knew the solution ... cut, slash and burn while showed their enormous capacity to cite the same lines over and over again by rote ...

Remarkably there was not a single word on how foreign-owned, international companies plying their trade - strangely News Corp came immediately to mind - might contribute to the solution by paying actual taxes ... a flea bite perhaps, but as the pond's grandmother used to say, every bit helps.

The rest at the AFR here, but at least it gave the pond an idea for the way to improve the economy going forward.

Forget VFT technology and that whole agile, innovative vision thingie.

What we need is a paper shuffle-led recovery.

Think of the employment opportunities ... all those people gainfully employed by meaningless subsidiaries, and deeply engaged in the fine art of paper shuffling ... and as Clive proves, it offers perfect deniability - well at least if you're perfectly deluded - and real productivity for a real future, and an end to all the reptiles' concerns about debt ... 

Paper shuffling to prosperity ...

Now don't thank the pond. Many have thought of it before ... as they shuffle off to Cayman or other positively spiffing places ...