Writer's Block: Money to burn

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Taking this literally, because I'm evil like that...

I would hire every lobbyist, political flunky, and pundit I could get my hands on. I would buy off every politician who could be bought. I would blow a shitload of money on political ads to promote my views.

I would pay off the national debt.

And then, because "anything I purchased would disappear," we'd be rid of a big, heaping, stinking pile of what's wrong with the political process in this country.

Comments

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

Warning, paradox moment...

But, if you paid off the national debt, wouldn't your "purchasing" of it disappear, and therefore the debt would be right back where it was?

Me, I'd be on a cruise ship for that 2 weeks. Enjoying the food, the travel, the alcohol, excursions, and plenty of spa treatments. All intangibles that wouldn't matter when they go away. Sorry, but that kind of money just screams dream vacation.

[i-renovated.livejournal.com]

Nope...see I would buy the national debt and then it would *poof* begone.

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

This could work. But it would require actually purchasing the actual debt from whomever currently holds it, then "forgiving" the entirety of it. That could make it "poof" effectively.

Problem is, our government would just go on a spending spree and run up the debt all over again. Yes, I'm cynical that way.

[i-renovated.livejournal.com]

You are so fucking scary. Not because of what you said, but because you came up with the same shit I did--National Debt and all the 'wrong stuff' to kiss goodbye. Okay, I probably would have skipped the lobbyists and gone straight for all the politicians and the media...and the IRS, and the BIA, and...

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I've watched "Brewster's Millions" more than a few times. There is a game to play, and playing it around the corner from what most people would do is the way to win.