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Finally: White House responds to petition to build the Death Star
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We’re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
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ROFL
malclave on January 11, 2013 at 11:03 PM
Krugman does not approve.
aryeung on January 11, 2013 at 11:04 PM
Joke administration for a joke voting public
WisCon on January 11, 2013 at 11:06 PM
Fixed it for them.
Gingotts on January 11, 2013 at 11:07 PM
Soooo… there’s no rebuilding Dick Cheney?
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Ugly on January 11, 2013 at 11:18 PM
Obama would just need to mint a one-quintillion-dollar coin out of platinum and we’d be able to build that sucker and have money left over to buy some clone soldiers. Why is Obama always so excessively modest about his capabilities?
Socratease on January 11, 2013 at 11:19 PM
So the administration wouldn’t fix a known bug before implementing a program? Oh, wait, guess that explains a lot.
theperfecteconomist on January 11, 2013 at 11:29 PM
So glad people in our government have nothing better to do than respond to ludicrous crap like this.
ButterflyDragon on January 12, 2013 at 12:28 AM
No problem. Just mint a $850,000,000,000,000,000 coin.
The Rogue Tomato on January 12, 2013 at 12:35 AM
Now you did it. That number is now out there. They’ll use it as a goal.
We will live to regret this. Hell, we already do.
Jimmy Doolittle on January 12, 2013 at 1:32 AM
There’s another nerdy petition that just hit the threshold:
Make the Metric system the standard in the United States, instead of the Imperial system
ZachV on January 12, 2013 at 2:39 AM
The entire article is full of hilarity. Not because it is witty but because it is full of b.s.
Because cutting defense is showing their support for strong national defense. We don’t even need to talk about job creation.
When have they ever tried to reduce the deficit? You would think this administration would jump all over the chance to spend over a quadrillion dollars. The price is probably too cheap for the Administration to consider.
Now if it was a drone we were talking about then sure, blowing up a planet would be cool.
Oh I don’t know, why would you spend taxpayer dollars on fundamentally flawed projects like green energy?
The Notorious G.O.P on January 12, 2013 at 4:35 AM
rogerb on January 12, 2013 at 4:44 AM
Worse, they set the threshold for a response so low they are now obligated to respond to quite a few of them. I’m waiting on responses for the many that start out “Peacefully allow [Insert state name here] to secede from the union…”
I think it goes to prove Øbama has no idea just how many people are in this country and engaged in what goes on in DC.
Odysseus on January 12, 2013 at 7:01 AM
Not sure if this was amusing or stupid.
Red Cloud on January 12, 2013 at 9:33 AM
If our nation was even remotely sane, this would be funny. As it is, WisCon said it better than I was going to. Joke administration for, from, and by joke voters.
MelonCollie on January 12, 2013 at 7:53 PM