Balancing the Books
March 24th, 2009 - 11:34 am
Nothing wrong with printing up a couple trillion dollars out of thin air, when you’re cutting spending to match:
Riki Ellison, who heads the industry-supported Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, said last month the White House asked the Pentagon to cut nearly $2 billion, or up to roughly 20 percent, from missile defense in its fiscal 2010 budget.
Two billion from missile defense, designed to prevent America’s foreign policy from being held hostage by happy friendly smiley places like Iran or North Korea. Two trillion from our grandkids to Nancy Pelosi.
Seems fair.
Well at this rate Iran and NoKo won’t bother raining missiles down on us. Why bother nuking a bankrupt workers’ paradise.
I read here “couple trillion”. I see that usage all over the web like the spelling error “definately”. When did it become OK to drop the “of” from the phrase “a couple of”?
Tom, that one happened ages ago. Although my particular favorite bit of relaxed grammar — try finding an Elmore Leonard character using the word “if.”