Saturday, March 28, 2009

Claw Arcade Machines vs Obama

My sons are enamored with claw arcade machines. I myself have never really liked them. I think they are a waste of money, offering naive children 20 seconds of hope for $.50 - usually with nothing to show afterwords. But then I got wondering...how much does 20 seconds of hope cost under the Obama administration? I did the math. Per Google, there are 31,556,926 seconds in a year X 4 = 126,227,704. Divide that by 20 and you get 6,311,385.2. Divide that figure into the estimated $13 Trillion we'll be shelling out and those 20 second bursts of hope are costing us...

$2,059,769.70

Spending that kind of money, in 20 seconds my sons could simply buy a number of claw arcade machine routes loaded with toys and have a lot more to show for their expenditure with income producing assets stimulating the economy one naive child at a time - as opposed to pretending to stimulate the economy one naive nation at a time.

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