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Obama Transition Team Shoots For $1 Trillion Stimulus Plan, Will Drop Currency From Airplanes To Celebrate Inauguration
In an effort to shock a listless economy back to life, members of the Obama transition team announced they are considering a stimulus plan that could total as high as one trillion dollars — or roughly the equivalent of one million Illinois Senate seats.
Aides had originally planned to stuff $1000 in twenties down the front of every adult’s pants in the continental United States but ran into resistance from evangelical ministers who preferred to have their money mailed to them in exchange for agreeing to pray for the economy.
The recovery plan would feature spending for green-technologies and a bunch of similar useless products from the SkyMall catalog. Money would also be earmarked for the conversion of scores of government buildings into energy-efficient structures although government workers would continue to be as inefficient as ever.
The transition team has cast a wide net in soliciting suggestions from a bipartisan group of economists regarding how to spend the money. According to MSNBC news, “among those whose opinions Obama sought were Lawrence B. Lindsey, a top economic adviser to President George W. Bush during his first term, and Harvard professor Martin Feldstein, an informal John McCain adviser and the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan.”
So far, the Obama team has refused to take calls from former New York governor Elliot Spitzer who reportedly has a number of suggestions on how to spend money while specifically targeting the service sector of the economy.
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“What will $1 trillion get me?
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