Humor About the President’s Budget, Intentional and Unintentional

One of these days I will get around to writing about President Obama’s proposed budget; Paul has already done so here. In the meantime, here is a humorous video produced by the Free Enterprise Alliance titled “You May Already Be a Loser.” I think that if people really understood what the federal government is doing to them, there would be a run on tar and feathers:

Now for the unintentional humor: the spectacle of Obama’s budget director, Jeff Zients, tap dancing around the numbers in his own budget and professing not to be aware that–if all goes according to plan–it would add more than $8 trillion to the national debt:

True, driving our nation into bankruptcy isn’t funny. Still, it sometimes helps to laugh.

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