January 29, 2004
"Let's say 1 cookie equals $10 billion..." Ben Cohen explains the federal budget with Oreos. [Flash.]
So if you come home from a weekend of watching Phish play in some godforsaken meadow in Vermont, and are majorly buzzed, do you just eat the whole Pentagon budget while waiting for Dominos to deliver?
Not crazy about the cartoonish partisan politics, but the philosophy works for me.
Long as I don't get spammed. I'll keep you posted.
let's place bets about when nabisco is going to rain a world of hurt down upon truemajority for their (i assume) unlicensed use of the heavily protected brand identity "oreo"...
But, it's free advertizing for them.
Anyway, how is this different from moveon.org? (besides having fun flash animations, I mean) Is it just a subtly different corner of the political spectrum? Targeting a different political spectrum?
**Targeting a different demographic.** I mean
I think this is a nice little video, but it always amazes me that people think if you throw money at a problem it will go away. Problems in education and world hunger are deep policy issues that will not magically get better by dumping money in the laps of inefficient bureaucrats.
Speaking as someone who aspires to be an inefficient bureaucrat, well, more corrupt really I suppose, shh. Give me your money and everything will be better. As far as the video goes though, I enjoyed it.
As Groucho said, it couldn't hoit.
I can't help but feel the cartoon does simplify matters, but it does raise the question: what are our priorities in the U.S? As a citizen, I think this question should be asked a lot more.
BTW, I think Keith Talent's scenario would make a great, comedic Twilight Zone episode...
[Munch] What happened to our budget?
incidentally, i did subscribe and I've been getting about one note every two days, generally on topics I care about.
Seems it could only be helpful.
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