Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted

Ann Coulter
www.townhall.com
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

It’s bad enough when illiterate jurors issue damages awards in the billions of dollars because they don’t grasp the difference between a million and a billion. Now it turns out the Democrats don’t know the difference between a million and a trillion.

Why not make the “stimulus bill” a kazillion dollars?

All Americans who work for a living, or who plan to work for a living sometime in the next century, are about to be stuck with a trillion-dollar bill to fund yet more oppressive government bureaucracies. Or as I call it, a trillion dollars and change.

The stimulus bill isn’t as bad as we had expected — it’s much worse. Instead of merely creating useless, make-work jobs digging ditches — or “shovel-ready,” in the Democrats’ felicitous phrase — the “stimulus” bill will create an endless army of government bureaucrats aggressively intervening in our lives. Instead of digging ditches, American taxpayers will be digging our own graves.

There are hundreds of examples in the 800-page “stimulus” bill, but here are just two.

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