The New York Times reported last week that movie and television producer Tyler Perry penned 200 different television episodes in all of six months this past year. The feverish writing coincided with a 43-city Madea farewell tour; Madea arguably the best-known character ever written by Perry. The productivity of individuals in today's hyper-technological world never ceases to amaze. One guesses Perry's output would have been quite a bit less robust in the 1970s when typewriters were still somewhat advanced, and the internet still a very distant object.
Perry's herculean productivity rates consideration as a response to the hand wringing among certain members of the right about "budget deficits" and alleged "fiscal insolvency" that supposedly looms for the U.S. Think about it for a second. Almost as regularly as Perry pens television episodes, self-proclaimed limited government types pen op-eds about a “bankrupt United States,” and “unfunded entitlement programs” that will be impossible to pay for given the “demographic outlook” for the U.S. that is supposedly dire thanks to Americans not making enough babies.
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