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To: Artie
So, in order to compensate for our technical deficits in properly dealing with climate change, we’ll just build these structures. Gimme a break

Exactamundo. Building the pyramids was the ancient Egyptian stimulus plan. By creating hundreds of thousands of government jobs, leaders hoped to jumpstart an economy slowed by climate change.

11 posted on 08/19/2012 5:30:53 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: AZLiberty; Ingtar

Post 13 was meant as a reply to 11.

Apologies.

FWIW, there is archaelogical evidence that the pyramids were built using mostly labor during the agricultural off season.

Those damn peasants are just sitting around anyway, might as well put em to work at something useful. “Useful” dependent on definition, of course.


14 posted on 08/19/2012 7:00:04 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: AZLiberty
Building the pyramids was the ancient Egyptian stimulus plan. By creating hundreds of thousands of government jobs, leaders hoped to jumpstart an economy slowed by climate change.

Wanna know what scares me? Keeps me up at night? That makes a ton of sense to me. And they're all dead.

20 posted on 08/23/2012 5:35:13 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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