Washington's routine use of words like billions and trillions when discussing spending is making the electorate increasingly nervous.
"I don't know where all this deficit spending will end," says Emily Littela, of Pelham, New York. "It frightening." she adds, clutching her purse as she enters the subway.President Obama has just the solution to soothe our jangled nerves. He issued an order this morning directing the press to replace zeros with pink-sprinkle donuts. Propaganda Minister Gibbs later issued additional guidance that allowed smiley faces as well as the creative use of cheery cartoon figures to replace other numbers.
Instead of writing $1 trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) the White House now mandates:
If you like how Gumby and some breakfast pastries take the edge off of reckless government largess, you'll love what some smiley faces and a snowman can do to our 80 trillion of unfunded mandates!
That $80 trillion hole were in doesn't seem so bad after all. Feel Better now?
1 comments:
Yes, but am I permitted to use Fruit Loops? They just seem so apropos... but then perhaps Fruit Loops should be reserved only to describe the California state debt.
Cheers
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