Sure, We're Broke, But at Least We Stimulated the Economy
Stimulate this.
"How dumb do you have to be to believe our shit? I TOLD YOU those morons would buy anything!"
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"Every gross brained idiot is suffered to come into print." ~ Thomas Nash (1592)
"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."
Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."
Albert A. Gore, Jr.:"An incontinent brute."
Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."
Friends of GF's Sons:"Is that really your dad?"
Kickball Girl:"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."
Hired Hand:"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."
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Comments on "Sure, We're Broke, But at Least We Stimulated the Economy"
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Anonymous said ... (9:44 AM) :
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Gentleman Farmer said ... (10:44 AM) :
post a commentwhile we're busy drawing sweeping, self-serving conclusions on the basis of a single data-point:
US GDP change:
4th quarter 2008: -6.3%
1st quarter 2009: -5.7%
2nd quarter 2009: -0.7%
3rd quarter 2009: +2.2%
US GNP change:
4th quarter 2008: -5.6%
1st quarter 2009: -5.8%
2nd quarter 2009: -1.0%
3rd quarter 2009: +3.0%
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6527684/Commerce-Department-GDP-Economic-Report-2009-1Q
I'm sure the 85,000 folks newly out of work last month will be comforted.