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Just A Really Big Number Will Do!

29 September 2008, 11:48 am. 2 Comments. Filed under Economy, Feckless Weasels.

Why not $900,000,000,000, or $3,000,000,000,000,000?

You know where that very important $700-billion figure came from?

Here’s a quote from that Forbes story:

“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

They made it up to be sufficiently ginormous to frighten everyone into rapid action.

And it worked.

H/T: Michelle Malkin

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  1. Pastor John. 29 September 2008, 12:56 pm

    “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

    It’s not that I didn’t trust you, but I had to go read that for myself.

    WHAT!?!?

  2. olbroad. 29 September 2008, 12:59 pm

    @Pastor John:

    Pfft! I don’t have THAT big of an imagination. :?

    Heh.