The mobile phone number of the man we are supposed to meet here is suspiciously engaged.
As we all know today is when we are supposed to celebrate Earth Hour.
We are supposed to be here to represent all Americans, and Americans benefit from environmental regulation big time.
In the mean time, we are supposed to nod along when MEPs say that their parliament is the future.
We are not yesterday's religion - we are supposed to relate to the context of whatever society we are in.
We are supposed to help our clients sift through this and construct the right portfolios for their situation and the times.
We are supposed to believe that the hideous economic contraction in Greece is due to the intolerable decline in government spending.
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We are supposed to collect coupons, store them, understand how and when to use them, understand how they can be combined etc.
Now, we are supposed to pay to "promote" our posts to our friends and, if we pay even more, to their friends.
We are well aware that we are supposed to take regular exercise.
As we grow up we are supposed to put away childish things, but why do that when some of them are so much fun.
"I'm looking out for the altitude, making sure we don't hit the ground and getting us to where we are supposed to go to, " said Maj.
We are supposed to go out to the outlying islands on Tuesday, then stay after the elections to draft our report before returning on 5 or 6 January.
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Next year, revenues will suddenly leap to 17.8% of GDP thanks to tax increases on the wealthy, which we are supposed to believe will have little impact on growth.
And we are supposed to take this report seriously?
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We are supposed to be truth tellers.
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Because, as I have discussed many times before, this is not just a debt crisis for the so-called 'periphery' economies. (I think we are supposed to forget, in these conversations, that the EU came of age with the Treaty of Rome.) It is also a crisis of competitiveness.
But now, three years on from Lehman and ten years almost to the day with Enron, we are not supposed to take bad debts off balance sheets.
But we are all supposed to read such stories at election time, and then forget them for the next five years until the next elections.
We are all supposed to pretend that we have equal suspicions of terrorist intent and thus must give equal scrutiny to a 70-year-old Irish nun, a 50-year-old Jewish seminarian, and a 30-year-old man from Saudi Arabia.
We are now supposed to believe that the same SEC lawyers who couldn't detect a fraud at a firm for which they were directly responsible would somehow have done so if only they had been able to examine other hedge funds that invested in Madoff Securities.
Finally, even if we acknowledge the problem, what are we supposed to do about it anyway?
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Advocates of solitary confinement are left with a single argument for subjecting thousands of people to years of isolation: What else are we supposed to do?
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