Random number

First spotted on Doonesbury.com, followed up in Forbes:

…some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

“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.”

Yup, that’s the way to govern. Just pick a very large sum of money at random and throw it at the problem.

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