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economy silliness
Jul. 8th, 2009 09:12 amI finished reading Making Money by Terry Pratchett last night (four the fourth, fifth? time) and have come to the conclusion that we need Moist Von Lipwig to rework the economy.
Especially California's.
They're handing out IOUs. My parents get money from the government to subsidize my brother and my housing. I don't know if they're going to get IOUs, but if they do my brother and I may have to move back home.
All we need to do is grab Moist, give him a neat hat that's gold and drop him into the Legislature. A week max and we've got our budget, government reforms, new spending procedures and a way to actually raise enough money without it being ridiculous. Not only that, he'd make it so that the legislature would agree on it without realizing what the hell just happened.
No one would be happy, of course, except the people who aren't politicians, but at least we'd have something to work with.
Then Obama would snatch him up and put him to work on the global economy. If that's not something where sizzle requires selling I don't know what does.
Meanwhile Captain Carrot would be sent to deal with the Taliban.
Especially California's.
They're handing out IOUs. My parents get money from the government to subsidize my brother and my housing. I don't know if they're going to get IOUs, but if they do my brother and I may have to move back home.
All we need to do is grab Moist, give him a neat hat that's gold and drop him into the Legislature. A week max and we've got our budget, government reforms, new spending procedures and a way to actually raise enough money without it being ridiculous. Not only that, he'd make it so that the legislature would agree on it without realizing what the hell just happened.
No one would be happy, of course, except the people who aren't politicians, but at least we'd have something to work with.
Then Obama would snatch him up and put him to work on the global economy. If that's not something where sizzle requires selling I don't know what does.
Meanwhile Captain Carrot would be sent to deal with the Taliban.
