It's Called Equity, Isabelle

ISABELLE:
Brianna?

BRIANNA:
Shut up.

ISABELLE:
Is that you?

BRIANNA:
Shut up. Shut up. This is so totally total. Isabelle. I can't believe it.

ISABELLE:
I didn't know you were in D.C.

BRIANNA:
Shut up. I haven't seen you since you threw up on your masters thesis outside the Far Bar. That was so tragic.

ISABELLE:
Yuh, thanks, but I had it on disk. That wasn't the only copy.

BRIANNA:
Oh my God, that is so lucky. So are you still blowing Chad?

ISABELLE:
No, that was over with last year.

BRIANNA:
What is he doing now? Is he in D.C.?

ISABELLE:
I guess, yuh. What are you doing now?

BRIANNA:
Chad was just so brilliant in school.

ISABELLE:
So tell me about you. Are you working?

BRIANNA:
Totally. I am totally working. Everybody said You'll never get anything in D.C. You will fall on your beautiful, nubile face. But I'm interning. I'm working.

ISABELLE:
That's great. That's terrific. On the Hill?

BRIANNA:
No, I'm working for AGE. It's totally cosmic.

ISABELLE:
I don't think I know what that is.

BRIANNA:
AGE. Act for Generational Equity. They have like 500 interns now. I've only met like 450 of them. But everyone is just so cool there. And I get to travel. I went to New Jersey last week.

ISABELLE:
That's great. What do they do, exactly.

BRIANNA:
Oh it's a whole campaign for generational equity. So that younger workers can keep more of what they earn and be able to invest their earnings themselves. Cause you know, it's our money.

ISABELLE:
Is this about social security?

BRIANNA:
Well they call it social security, but really it's just theft, Isabelle. I mean we're paying in all this money and we're never going to see any of it because it's all going to older people who aren't working anymore. So like what is their problem?

ISABELLE:
So you're supporting Bush's plan to privatize?

BRIANNA:
It isn't Bush's plan, it's our plan. And it isn't privatizing, it's individual investment accounts so we can earn like real money with all our savings instead of this like crap that the government invests our money in.

ISABELLE:
Federal treasury bonds?

BRIANNA:
Well yuh. Who does that? We have to bring down the system, Isabelle. That's why we're going to college campuses all over and rock concerts and beaches and certain of the nicer bars and just talking to people under 30 about how to stop the rip-off.

ISABELLE:
Really. And who's funding you?

BRIANNA:
What is that supposed to mean?

ISABELLE:
You're supporting Bush's plan. Somebody in his camp must be paying for it.

BRIANNA:
Isabelle, you are so effing negative about everything. This is an awesome ass-kicking campaign by young people for young people. And after the internship, we all get free placement assistance.

ISABELLE:
That's great. So for placement assistance, you're working for free, you're defending Bush, and you're attacking social security.

BRIANNA:
No. We're the ones supporting social security. You're the one living in Dimension Fantasy-X. We're trying to give young people a break.

ISABELLE:
By selling out your parents?

BRIANNA:
It's called equity, Isabelle. But you wouldn't understand that. Because it doesn't fit into your radical, left wing stupid world. I am totally not surprised you would think this way. I am totally, awesomely, righteously not surprised that this is your attitude.

ISABELLE:
Good luck with it, okay? I have to go.

BRIANNA:
Wait. So do you still have Chad's number?