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patrickt
12-29-2012, 06:12 AM
"* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50
Make sense now?"
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/12/28/us-budget-for-dummies/

But, don't despair. The federal government, which can't deal with budget matters is coming down on the Hemingway Museum in Key West. Hemingway had a six-toed cat which sired other six-toed cats and the federal government, always concerned for our welfare, has been in a ten-year battle over having the museum follow federal regulations concerning animals.

"As a result, the owners of the museum must:
obtain an exhibitor’s license; contain and cage the cats in individual shelters at night, or alternatively, construct a higher fence or an electric wire atop the existing brick wall, or alternatively, hire a night watchman to monitor the cats; tag each cat for identification purposes; construct additional elevated resting surfaces for the cats within their existing enclosures; and pay fines for the museum’s non-compliance with the Animal Welfare Act.
I don’t have the space here to get into all of the details of this ten-year-old legal dispute. But, in short, it’s all incredibly stupid."
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/336554/don-t-tread-six-toed-cats-jonah-goldberg

Sleep well, America. We have tens of thousands of more regulations coming to save us. The economy? Not a problem.