"It's a long time till lunch, and no bananas."

President Obama is trying to feed us a lot of food, but it's not very healthy, and it won't be ready for a while. I'm talking about the bailout. there is so much to say about it, and, well, yeah. so far the government has taken $4.6165 trillion dollars from our taxpaying pockets, that's more than all of these big government expenditures.

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion

that's like $686 billion less than the crisis we're in now. and mixed in with all this is a bunch of pork! all of these taxpayer dollars are not going to pay off overnight! this barbecue isn't very good for you, and it has a lot of fat. did you know that to smoke barbecue takes like 24x the amount of time it takes to cook some dish normally? besides, all this money can't come from your pockets, right? some tons of it is coming from other countries, such as communist China. so to get the US. inside out of debt, we get the US. gov. in debt! and if you think about it, the gov. gets more leverage over us, they basically own GM, Citi Bank, and AIG. and is the economy getting any better now? some speculators say it will take at least ten years to kick in! or as my mother put it at breakfast one morning, "It's a long time till lunch and no bananas." what we need is the free market.

written feb. 28 of '09.