Posted on 03/03/2009 10:19:05 AM PST by John Semmens
Citing the “need to maintain an adequate level of popular diversion during these bleak times,” Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, announced a fund of $175 million will be used to subsidize the National Basketball Association.
“When you’re paying $10 to $20 million a year for a top-notch player even the resources of a millionaire owner can be stretched beyond what was anticipated,” Geithner observed. “Many of these teams are forced to play in arenas more than ten years old. Cities are too strapped for funds to build new ones.”
Anticipating critics’ contentions that the use of scarce funds for such a nonessential purpose might be outside the legitimate scope of government, Geithner asserted that “man does not live by bread alone. He also needs circuses. The vicarious thrills that professional sports provide will help take peoples’ minds off of their troubles.”
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d@mn you, satire- you are too close to actual WH policy these days...
“He also needs circuses.”
Heheheh.
keep the natives happy, think Roman Circus here. The players of the NBA make enormous salaries, if the league needs cash, reduce the salaries of the players.
Maybe some of the money can be used to get some DECENT officiating, instead of the rigged ones they have right now
“He also needs circuses. The vicarious thrills that professional sports provide will help take peoples’ minds off of their troubles.””
“Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, Nobody knows my sorrow”
Nobody knows diversion better than the Left.
Good one John. Thanks for the chuckle.
Excellent.
The fact that many for a moment rhought this was true shows just how stupid porkulus is.
Please quit giving them ideas!
Had me going for a second
:-)
Insanity strikes again.
Why subsidize a bunch of young millionares???????
Just one question: Are all the owners and players limited to $500,000? Just asking.
The NBA?? Okay...how about the WNBA, MLB, and the NFL? Will the arena League and MLS and the MLL get any??
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