Fake Mayor Slay: Is That $700B In Your Pocket, Or Are You Happy to Be Here?

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My Fellow Citizens... what's happenin'?  Sorry to be flip, but I am in a great mood.  See, the Congress finally got off their fat cat, lighting-cigars-off-$100-bills tails this weekend and did something for Francis Q. Public.  

Looks as though the $700,000,000,000 financial bailout is going to happen.  So all those investment banks that built their business around the idea that they could manage risk, and profit from the uncertain don't actually have to be accountable for all the bad decisions they made.  And that, my friends, is great news for us here in St. Louis.  How's that?  Well, I'm not just Mayor because no one else ran.  (Well, actually that is true as well).

During a high-level meeting with El Capitan himself (pictured here with me and Smokin' Matt Blunt), I think I made a breakthrough in economic policy.  Too long have we depended on wealth to "trickle down" from the wealthy.  The idea is sound, just executed wrong.  

What this country needs is a "Trickle Out" economic plan.  The basis is this: plop all $700 Bigby's* in a pile right here in the middle of America, and watch it spread throughout the land.  If you were pouring cake batter in a pan shaped like America, would you pour it all in the "Wall Street" of the pan?  NO!  You'd pour it right on top of St. Louis, and watch that delicious goodness fill all of your America Cake with just the slightest effort.  And then, like our economy, your America Cake would rise from sea to lightly-greased-with-Crisco sea.

Trickle Out Economics.  Often the best solution is the simplest, folks.  

* "Bigbys" is insider politico jargon for "Billions of dollars."  As in, "wow, Lacy you mean Billion, with a Big B."  I like letting you laypeople in on the political scene on the blog here.  And yes, our Congressman is actually named Lacy.  I wasn't making that up.