Zanny Rants » stimulus package http://www.zannyrants.com Opinions, Thoughts and Commentary of a Baby Boomer Artist Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Political Urgency Regarding the Stimulus Package Rant http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/14/political-urgency/ http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/14/political-urgency/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:18:20 +0000 zanny http://www.zannyrants.com/?p=61 It’s good everyone in Washington feels this “sense of urgency” to fix our economy! Oh, wait…..not everyone. Apparently only the Dems do! Honestly, most of the Repukelicans make me want to do just that, what with all their vitriolic rhetoric….spewing garbage, lies, distortions. I don’t think they want this “stimulus package” to succeed at all. That way, in 2010, they can holler “SEE….we told you so!”. It’s all about saving their shiny asses in 2010, not about doing the bipartisan thing or actually reaching out in any way to those they oppose. They truly do make me want to vomit! Well, most of them do anyway.

]]> http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/14/political-urgency/feed/ 0 Stimulus Package Rant: Just How Much Is A Trillion? http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/09/just-how-much-is-a-trillion/ http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/09/just-how-much-is-a-trillion/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:08:03 +0000 zanny http://www.zannyrants.com/?p=13 President Obama will be addressing the nation in a few hours regarding this “stimulus package” that will save the economy from sheer disaster. Well, I don’t know if it will or not, I’m not an economist or a mathematician, but……I did some math trying to wrap my brain around the dollars being committed to this effort and I want to share what I discovered in this rant.

I picked a figure I can relate to……..$2000, and a time frame I could understand….24 hours. Then I did the math! Astonishing. That’s a bucket-load of money, for sure. Just to put it in a little different perspective, so you can grasp the enormity of the amount, if you really could spend $2000 per minute, even for one day, you’d spend $2,880,000 in just the first 24 hours! Isn’t that mind-blowing?!

]]> http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/09/just-how-much-is-a-trillion/feed/ 0