Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Don't Ever Change, America, Because I Love You Just The Way You Are

America is once more on a collision course with the debt ceiling, threatening the economy’s fragile recovery with an entirely avoidable crisis of Congress’ own making. But there may be a way to avoid the whole mess: President Obama can legally mint a commemorative coin worth $1 trillion to guarantee the nation’s creditworthiness. That creates its own crisis, however — namely, who do you put on the platinum coin? Fortunately, we rounded up some options.

 
 
This article describes how the goofy trillion dollar coin works and how it can get America out of it's debt ceiling crisis. God damn I love America. If they do mint the coin they of course will put an eagle on it or something equally iconic. I of course prefer Dr Evil, who is the perfect symbol for this kind of financial stupidity.
 

4 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I vote for Grumpy Cat on the $1 trillion coin!

Kal said...

PERFECT! I must be slipping if I didn't think of it myself.

DrGoat said...

I vote for Scrooge McDuck on the coin.

Kal said...

See, this is a fun game.