Washington Monument Still Exists, Thanks to Barack Obama!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 10:28AM Hello all,
I am at Houston Intercontinental Airport today - an airport that, like most, is also named after a criminal. It's strange, isn't it, that little criminals, like people who enjoy smoking plants like marijuana, go to jail while the big ones get airports and roads named after them.
Before I get going on today's blog I want to apologize to subscribers. I spent the weekend at the Calgary Resource conference and I was unable to get out our Interim Update this weekend. Ed Bugos had written it but I was so busy for the entire weekend I did not have time to get it out. Then, yesterday, as I was preparing to get it out, my laptop stopped working!
So, I will get that out as soon as I can get to my home computer in Acapulco later this evening.
On that note, I also want to state that there has been a LOT of changes at The Dollar Vigilante over the last 9 months since our launch. When we launched in July 2010 things got off to a bit of a slow start, as you might imagine. However, in the last 3 or 4 months things have changed dramatically. As Ed mentioned, when he covered for me on the blog last week when I was in transit, the message we are spreading here at TDV is really beginning to catch on - to the point where I seem to be on planes to conferences around the globe or on the radio, TV or podcasts nearly daily now.
This is all great news but it has made me realize that if I am going to do all these events and appearances that we are going to have to hire some extra staff, so things like me being too busy or having my computer break won't cause us to be delayed on the release of our subscriber content.
Thank you to all of our amazing subscribers for your patience as we try to adjust to the massive growth in our brand. I was thrilled to meet dozens of TDV subscribers in Calgary and we have been taking on lots of new subscriber requests - something else we are backlogged on!
We'll get this rectified ASAP, I promise.
And with that, let's get right to the most important news of the last few days, Barrack Obama managed to keep the Washington Monument from disappearing!
As I mentioned in my blog on Friday, I held out no hope that the US Government would actually stop itself from destroying the planet and so I was one of the least surprised when, at the last minute, they came up with a way to keep this gravy train of funny money going.
Then I read this: High fives for nearly sacking government?
If I am reading the statements from Barack Obama correctly, he seems to think one of the most important roles of government is just to keep open the White House Gift shop and, apparently, the Washington Monument so that school children can visit and " feel the sense of pride and possibility that defines America".
He even dropped in to the Washington Monument in a bizarre, cameo appearance type entrance. According to the news article, it occurred like this:
"Hi everybody," he told surprised tourists, "I just wanted to say, real quick, that because Congress was able to settle its differences, that's why this place is open today and everybody's able to enjoy their visit."
Gee, thanks, Barack! But, is that what you think the $4 trillion+ federal government's budget is for? To operate gift shops and to remind people of the PAST when there may have been something to be proud about in Washington DC??
Is he going to drop in on some Pakistani families and do the same, "Hi everybody! Thanks to my hard work our unmanned drone bombings can continue in your country!" Doubt it. The same probably goes for those living in other places under attack by the Prince of Peace, like Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The best thing that could have happened would have been for the US Government to shut down, for good. This one event, despite having a few weeks/months of major chaos, would bring peace and prosperity to the planet in a very short period of time.
And, even if the US Government were to close down, I think it is important to remind Obama that the Washington Monument would still exist... he seems to think it would all disappear unless he keeps taking your money!
Reader Comments (2)
Jeff, Any comment on Goldman's little nudge to the market today on Ben's behalf?
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Wanna bet that silver is going down 37% by July.....
Hi Laurence, I was so busy today (flew in from Houston to Acapulco) and then worked all night, catching up on hundreds of emails, I didn't hear about that... what happened?