Two hundred billion boxes of Kashi U!

It's that good!

Instead of sarcastic and misleading comparisons to billions of Big Macs, how about we compare the stimulus package to other government spending?

For one example, the US military. While the $700B+ stimulus package Obama just signed is a hell of a lot of money, it would be roughly enough to fund the US military (including the Department of Defense and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) for twelve months (though, if you really add it up, even $700B wouldn't be enough).

One year. We'll spend that much on the military this year. We spent that much last year, too. And the year before, and before that, too. etc.. And even then, our spending on the military is currently low by historic standards.

But anyone who complains about that is a hysterical pacifist lefty, of course. Serious people know that military money is magic money: it comes from nowhere and costs nobody nothin.

Let's not talk about it any further.

(Unless you want to, then you should go read this)

4 thoughts on “Two hundred billion boxes of Kashi U!

  1. Ugh

    How’s this for a double-whammy. My wife and I get a notice from the IRS on Friday that they’ve selected our 2007 return for an audit. Then today my wife get’s her wallet stolen out of her purse.

    Hmmm…maybe it was the IRS taking a short cut.

  2. Ugh

    Plus we’re in the middle of refinancing the house.

    They only charged what small amounts on the credit card (and debit card) before she got a fraud alert on the debit card (she never uses it so it came through quickly), so hopefully not much damage done. I’m more worried about identity theft since they got her driver’s license (we put on a fraud alert) and/or them breaking into the house since they have our address and a plausible reason for snooping around (we were just returning her wallet). Sounds like small time crooks or teenagers though, based on what they charged (although they took it out in a crowded lunch place in downtown dc, which was kind of brazen), so hopefully it’s just the lost cash and hassle, in the end.

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