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Yet another interesting thing that Ben put on his blog

Mostly I am interested in the really well done flash animation.

Maybe Texas (or Travis) have started to get to me, in that I did not have the knee-jerk "heck yeah" response that I thought I would have. While I do believe that our Military budget is astoundingly high and that with better financial management (and maybe some better international diplomacy) we could cut spending by 1/8, as Mr. Ice-Cream suggests. It hardly follows that we immediately spend that money for noble-sounding social program. For example, hows about we put some more money into mundane but necessary social programs like oh... Social Security we'll need about 3.7 Trillion dollars to feed that monster, so we might as well start to ante up.

Speaking of feeding the monster... We could hand that money over to The Office of Public Dept.

Why care about the debt?

$7.1 Trillion that we owe mostly to foreign governments as of yesterday - that's a big conflict of interest staring us down.

Too boring?

If we must use that money for noble-sounding social programs, it is hardly clear that Federal agencies are the best way to execute these social goals.

To whom would I give 50 billion dollars?

How about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? Bill Gates is a lunatic who demands result, just ask Dave. Why it was just this Tuesday when Dave was eating lunch with the big man just the other day when Dave nonchallantly said "Billy... Why can't you just chill out? Taco?"

To which Bill Gates replied, "Who gave you permission to eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom? Back into your code cubicle. Task manager! [clap, clap] Away with this peon!"

So... maybe that didn't actually happen, but you get the idea.

I can imagine Gates screaming at one of his program directors at his foundation, "I gave you 8 billion dollars to develop sustainable agriculture in Central Africa, its been a year and only 1% more arable land is being farmed... That's totally cruddy!"