Thursday, February 5, 2009

This is just too funny!

The Guardian today, yes, the Guardian, posted a video put up on YouTube that originally aired on C-Span. It is a press conference by our House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, telling reporters how dire our situation is and that "500 million Americans will lose their jobs every month", if we do not act now to pass a stimulus package. How sobering Nancy! 500 million of us. Wow, that's, wait, there aren't 500 million of us. 500 million? There are only around 305 million Americans as of now according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, there are a heck of a lot of children, so not all 300 million of those even work. Perhaps there are wayward Americans (ex-pats) spread across the world who are also going to lose their jobs, but 200 million of them? Nonetheless, her statement implies that every month, ALL Americans will lose their jobs if we do not act on the stimulus package. All of us, that includes herself and all the rest of the crooks in Congress, House and Senate. So, just to be clear, she obviously (I hope) misspoke and meant something closer to 50,000 each month or even 500,000 each month. I hope that is the case because the alternative is just too laughable. The fact that she said it still makes me laugh out loud. So, the question then becomes, why haven't you heard about it! The Guardian covered it for gosh sakes (of course maybe this is just because of their habit of America bashing). But media outlets in America seem to have let it slide. I also saw it on the Drudge report and Glenn Beck, but where is CNN, USAToday, the NY Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, even FoxNews didn't cover it, it was on Glenn Beck's radio show, although he'll probably have it on his tv show too. Nonetheless, if Bush had said something so stupid, we'd have plastered it all over the news and made sure that everyone knew just how stupid he is, but somehow with Pelosi, it doesn't even get mentioned? Nancy hopefully made a mistake and misspoke. What's the medias excuse?

1 comment:

Rebecca said...

Actually Jeff I think she didn't mis-speak at all. What she was quoting was the number of people that will be on record once Rahm Emmanuel runs the next census since the Obama WH is taking over the census bureau. She was giving us a sneak peak into our new "population growth!" Oh, and all of the new 200 million people are going to be registered Democrats! :-)