"Just sort of sitting there"

Privatization: The Road to Hell | Truthout

Un­for­tunate­ly, with today's polit­ical climate dominated by howl­ing winds from the far-right frin­ge, there's no long­er any room in American cul­ture for satire. Sure en­ough, some laissez-faire ex­trem­ists at such Koch-funded cor­porate fronts as Cato In­stitute and Heritage Foun­da­tion are pre­sent­ly howl­ing for the govern­ment to sell all of America's gold stored in Fort Knox. Not­ing that we have bi­ll­ions worth of bull­ion in the vaults, a fel­low from Heritage made this keen ob­ser­va­tion: "It's just sort of sitt­ing there."