So that mean Montgomery Brewster isn't going to get the full inheritance?

Well thank god our government has never flushed $1T down the crapper before, right?

oh, wait...

If I had a million to spend the day Jebus was born, I'd have copyrighted every Christian symbol that has ever been used, plus had painters to come in and record evrything that happened.

The next day I'd have spent it all on figs and wine for everyone.

Because as we all know, D/DSJ (dollars per days since Jesus) is the proper measure of all legislation.

All this "pile up this money and you will go around the earth this many times" and such is ridiculous. I'm just stunned that's the argument over and over and over.

slepygryhnd: All this "pile up this money and you will go around the earth this many times" and such is ridiculous. I'm just stunned that's the argument over and over and over.

If you can't argue on merit, dazzle 'em with bullshiat.

slepygryhnd: All this "pile up this money and you will go around the earth this many times" and such is ridiculous. I'm just stunned that's the argument over and over and over.

Indeed. You know why they do it? Because analyzing the situation and making a reasonable determination on the best way to solve it requires intellectual rigor and patience. Why bother? Just write editorial screeds about how many XXX can be used to XXX.

What a coincidence, with Obama being the second coming.

If I had $1 million for every day since I was born, I'd have over $18 billion now.

Or, more accurately, I probably would have spent nearly $18 billion by now ;)

SpinStopper: If I had $1 million for every day since I was born, I'd have over $18 billion now.

Or, more accurately, I probably would have spent nearly $18 billion by now ;)

Dude, you're 49,315,068 years old?

JacksBlack: SpinStopper: If I had $1 million for every day since I was born, I'd have over $18 billion now.

Or, more accurately, I probably would have spent nearly $18 billion by now ;)

Dude, you're 49,315,068 years old?

I was told there would be no math.

Bucky Katt: JacksBlack: SpinStopper: If I had $1 million for every day since I was born, I'd have over $18 billion now.

Or, more accurately, I probably would have spent nearly $18 billion by now ;)

Dude, you're 49,315,068 years old?

I was told there would be no math.

It's a good thing too, because I farked it up.

yeah but you would have a shiatload of millions

Apparently the Iraq war is costing $341.4 million per day.

/just throwing accurate, yet pointless, numbers out there is easy

WWJS?

Jesus would have flipped over every table on Wall Street.

JacksBlack: Bucky Katt: JacksBlack: SpinStopper: If I had $1 million for every day since I was born, I'd have over $18 billion now.

Or, more accurately, I probably would have spent nearly $18 billion by now ;)

Dude, you're 49,315,068 years old?

I was told there would be no math.

It's a good thing too, because I farked it up.

Boy, did you ever ;)

If you rape the middle-class of America, send thousands of our finest young men and women to their deaths for no reason, raid the treasury for trillions to give to your close friends, take a shiat on the Constitution and allow the infrastructure of our country to fall in complete disrepair and sell it off to foreign companies does your party have any credibility for, say the next 20 years?

Indeed that's the longest run-on sentence I've ever written but who cares. I'm truly interested in what moment the GOP became fiscally conservative and responsible.

JacksBlack: Jesus would have flipped over every table on Wall Street.

You, my friend just earned a spot on my favorites. Imagine the prestige.

DamnYankees: Because as we all know, D/DSJ (dollars per days since Jesus) is the proper measure of all legislation.

I cracked up. But don't give Republicans ideas.

sloppy shoes: DamnYankees: Because as we all know, D/DSJ (dollars per days since Jesus) is the proper measure of all legislation.

I cracked up. But don't give Republicans ideas.

The beauty is that under this conception, the bailout package has actually gotten cheaper since it was first proposed. And by the time the 2010 elections come around, it'll be quite a bit cheaper. It's automatic depreciation!

I wonder how many years it would take to spend the same amount of money that we spent in Iraq at a $1 million a day?

GAT_00: I wonder how many years it would take to spend the same amount of money that we spent in Iraq at a $1 million a day?

Replace Jesus with Charlamagne and I think you're about there.

DamnYankees: Replace Jesus with Charlamagne and I think you're about there.

And hell, that doesn't even touch how much we pay for military support each year. It baffles me that we almost spend more for our military than the entire rest of the world combined.

I think I'm close to earning $10/day since octopulets born / octopulet, so I'm all for this new way of measuring wealth and expenses.

And if you had one trillion PANCAKES, and you covered each of them with butter and maple syrup, and you fed them all to cows, you still wouldn't have as much bullshiat as this article.

Isn't there some kind of reverse-godwin law about invoking Jesus in a comment thread? If there isn't, there damn well should be.

"This isn't Monopoly money. It's real. It adds up - and it has to be paid back, by our children and by their children"

Because, as we know, all the money that was put in the deficit before February 13, 2009 didn't really count and wasn't going to paid for by future generations.

The intellectual dishonesty is so staggering in this regard, that we have to rely on a COMEDIAN to point it out to the nation.

A Dark Evil Omen: And if you had one trillion PANCAKES, and you covered each of them with butter and maple syrup, and you fed them all to cows, you still wouldn't have as much bullshiat as this article.

You're right, you wouldn't have as much bullshiat as this article. You'd have no bullshiat, because you fed all your pancakes to the females.

/just sayin' ;-)

Dear submitter,

Yeah, and where was your outrage when Bush increased the debt by $5 trillion in 8 years?

-Arth

How about the 11 trillion we've racked up since our little experiment with trickle down, supply side, neo-liberal, Reaganmics, idiocy?

DIAF.

Jesus saves.

Wait. Did they adjust for inflation?

Is that all 2009 dollars? I MUST KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN!!!!

sloppy shoes: A Dark Evil Omen: And if you had one trillion PANCAKES, and you covered each of them with butter and maple syrup, and you fed them all to cows, you still wouldn't have as much bullshiat as this article.

You're right, you wouldn't have as much bullshiat as this article. You'd have no bullshiat, because you fed all your pancakes to the females.

/just sayin' ;-)

Bah! Semantics! What are you, some kind of ivory tower librul?!

SpinStopper: If I had $1 million for every day since I was born, I'd have over $18 billion now.

Or, more accurately, I probably would have spent nearly $18 billion by now ;)

You sound like you could almost be a democratic senator. Now for the full cigar- go into debt.

What about inflation? What if it was invested in the stock market?

NRO: pulling numbers out of its rear end since 876BC

Whatever jesus freak. In a year everyone will be talking about how this stimulus plan was a work of genius.

JacksBlack: WWJS?

Jesus would have flipped over every table on Wall Street.

This is priceless!! May I use it ?..also,I had to add you to my favorites too...what color would you like?....cyan 2 is quite nice or would you prefer green?..

The guy has a point if you ignore his stupid Jesus reference, which is meant as an obvious ploy to get "WE LOVE JESUS" conservatives on his side. This money will need to be paid back with interest. Our children are going to eat ridiculous taxation because we already owe stupid amounts to foreign investors. We were already at the critical breaking point due to our own social policies (i.e. Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare) and this stimulus is going to leap off that ledge with fervor usually reserved for religious fanatics.

I'm still not convinced either way that excess deficit spending nor doing nothing is the way to go to prevent a full on Great Depression II. Personally, I'm a fan of the fire prevention method. To prevent a massive forest fire, you purposefully burn down a portion of the forest. You don't gain anything by trying to stop every tree from burning, because to do so will only create wider catastrophe in the future. If you try to protect everything, everything will suffer.

Sometimes you have to set fire to the dry tinder to save the healthy trees.

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: This money will need to be paid back with interest. Our children are going to eat ridiculous taxation because we already owe stupid amounts to foreign investors.

You wait and see, the economy will greet us as liberators.

A Dark Evil Omen: Bah! Semantics! What are you, some kind of ivory tower librul?!

I'm a feminist, so I don't want you giving all the credit to the men when the women do all the work.

What about if everyone in America spent 40 bucks a month for 12 months for a year?

Doesn't sound like that much now does it!

/I may have screwed the numbers, should be over a trillion, I have been drinking

ggowins: So that mean Montgomery Brewster isn't going to get the full inheritance?

This comment is full of win, and needs acknowledgement.

I have my own opinion on whether or not Jesus ever existed, but assuming he did, Duh! That's just simple math. Not impressive.

Did you know that if you got $160 from every man, woman, and child living right now you wouldn't have $1 trillion?

Hmmm... Divide $1 trillion by the number of people who work for the federal government, about 2.7 million, and you get about $600k.

We have allowed gov't to get large enough that they can lose a half percent of the GDP in gov't spending due to rounding errors. There has to be something we can ditch, or privatize to the point where you only need a dozen gov't people.

kaminariko: Apparently the Iraq war is costing $341.4 million per day.

So what you're saying that if you spent a million dollars a day for almost a year you wouldn't pay for the Iraq War? Where was the NRO then?

Kierkegaard's Pseudonym: I'm still not convinced either way that excess deficit spending nor doing nothing is the way to go to prevent a full on Great Depression II. Personally, I'm a fan of the fire prevention method. To prevent a massive forest fire, you purposefully burn down a portion of the forest. You don't gain anything by trying to stop every tree from burning, because to do so will only create wider catastrophe in the future. If you try to protect everything, everything will suffer.

Sometimes you have to set fire to the dry tinder to save the healthy trees.


That's a bad way to look at the economy. The reality is that people are economic capacity, and under utilizing that economic capacity hurts those people. Link (new window) Here is Forbes article talking about the Great Depression. Of course it got red lit, but it's a good primer on why we need to spend.

A more concise way to explain it to anybody who is not emo- you don't commit suicide just because things didn't go your way this week. Letting the economy collapse may indeed seem morally justifiable as punishment for people's inane financial choices, but just as protectionism hurts us in the long run, so does letting your country kill itself over some idiots.

bake2: ggowins: So that mean Montgomery Brewster isn't going to get the full inheritance?

This comment is full of win, and needs acknowledgement.

Thanks. I figured my stupid grammatical oversight might have precluded it from consideration. :D

TeddyBallGame: If you rape the middle-class of America, send thousands of our finest young men and women to their deaths for no reason, raid the treasury for trillions to give to your close friends, take a shiat on the Constitution and allow the infrastructure of our country to fall in complete disrepair and sell it off to foreign companies does your party have any credibility for, say the next 20 years?

Indeed that's the longest run-on sentence I've ever written but who cares. I'm truly interested in what moment the GOP became fiscally conservative and responsible.

Fiscal conservatism and fiscal responsibility are mutually exclusive. The Republicans claim to practice fiscal conservatism, yet don't practice fiscal responsibility. The last Democratic president we had practiced fiscal responsibility while not practicing fiscal conservatism.

Fiscal conservatism = Low risk, low reward investments and looking into things besides spending to aid the economy.
Fiscal responsibility = Living within your means.

Spending only on food and bills is being fiscally conservative, but if it outstrips what you make, it's not fiscally responsible.

Spending only half your paycheck each week is being fiscally responsible, but only spending it on lottery tickets isn't fiscally conservative.

I am glad that conservatives are now concerned about fiscal responsiblity, but where the fark were you idiots for the last eight years when Bush spent five trillion dollars we don't have?