Nam
February 7th, 2009, 04:31 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/feb/04/nancy-pelosi-obama-stimulus-population-usa
Basically, Pelosi says that if legislators don't move quickly to pass President Barack Obama's stimulus package, "500 million Americans lose their jobs". According to her, this sobering scenario will occur every month without proper government action.
However, according to the US census bureau, the current population of residents in the country stands at about 305,000,000.
That's right, more bloated, arcane numbers springing forth from some imaginary fount. A 900 billion dollar 'stimulus package' is pending, without which we apparently face '500 million lost jobs'. How do these figures manifest? How are they approximated if they are not just jerked down out of the thin, crisp air? Who knows. Regardless, rest easy knowing competent oracles like Pelosi and other adept economic minds of considerable prescience are on the ball and are working feverishly to get a tourniquet on the country as we buckle to the reverberating backlash of our decadent and ignorant ways... afterall, without their expertise, everyone in America and then some will lose their job.
There might not be much of anything to discuss here, because it feels like everyone is just sort of holding their breath and trying to think positive as we assume we don't know better than the 'experts' so we sit tight hoping these blundering bastards can eek us out of catastrophe. We're tapped out though, people are broke as shit. You might even say all our islands have been tapped for their respective mana and we can't afford to counterspell ...can we? Yes, I did just make a mtg reference. We can't afford to live the way we did anymore though. I'm sorry America, I don't need a ford truck. I want a gun and some rice and beans for safe storage. (just a note, gun sales are exploding, at least here.)
But there's really nothing to do now though except to bend over and hope we get stimulated by this package.
/End rant. (Forgive me, it's been fermenting over the last few months and I don't like Pelosi).
Basically, Pelosi says that if legislators don't move quickly to pass President Barack Obama's stimulus package, "500 million Americans lose their jobs". According to her, this sobering scenario will occur every month without proper government action.
However, according to the US census bureau, the current population of residents in the country stands at about 305,000,000.
That's right, more bloated, arcane numbers springing forth from some imaginary fount. A 900 billion dollar 'stimulus package' is pending, without which we apparently face '500 million lost jobs'. How do these figures manifest? How are they approximated if they are not just jerked down out of the thin, crisp air? Who knows. Regardless, rest easy knowing competent oracles like Pelosi and other adept economic minds of considerable prescience are on the ball and are working feverishly to get a tourniquet on the country as we buckle to the reverberating backlash of our decadent and ignorant ways... afterall, without their expertise, everyone in America and then some will lose their job.
There might not be much of anything to discuss here, because it feels like everyone is just sort of holding their breath and trying to think positive as we assume we don't know better than the 'experts' so we sit tight hoping these blundering bastards can eek us out of catastrophe. We're tapped out though, people are broke as shit. You might even say all our islands have been tapped for their respective mana and we can't afford to counterspell ...can we? Yes, I did just make a mtg reference. We can't afford to live the way we did anymore though. I'm sorry America, I don't need a ford truck. I want a gun and some rice and beans for safe storage. (just a note, gun sales are exploding, at least here.)
But there's really nothing to do now though except to bend over and hope we get stimulated by this package.
/End rant. (Forgive me, it's been fermenting over the last few months and I don't like Pelosi).