{"id":2184,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/nations-leaders-come-together-to-balance-the-budget-on-todds-back\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:54","slug":"nations-leaders-come-together-to-balance-the-budget-on-todds-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/nations-leaders-come-together-to-balance-the-budget-on-todds-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation\u2018s Leaders Come Together to Balance the Budget on Todd\u2019s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Timi Koyejo\">Timi Koyejo<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>April 20, 2014<\/h6>\n<p>Following months  of deliberation, Congressional leaders and President Obama have announced in a joint bipartisan news conference their plan to eliminate the budget deficit entirely  through funds generated by Todd.  The elusive, so-called \u201cGrand Bargain\u201d was finally hammered out early this morning in Roosevelt Room of the White House, where the key players of the budget negotiations met to finalize the deal.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said to  reporters, \u201cWe realized that instead of trying to spread the pain around, and then fight over who gets screwed over, we should just dump it all on Todd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The talks&#8217; culminationappeared headed for collapse, as negotiators struggled to decide whose back to balance the budget on. Suggestions to balance the budget on the backs of the those that could least afford it, grandmothers with terminal cancer, a small-town girl livin&#8217; in a lonely world, homeless veterans, small business owners just getting by, large business owners barely making it, the hard-working middle class, a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, our future generations, our forefathers, defenseless defense contractors, and job creators were all ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Senior administration officials report that the meeting&#8217;s turning point took place when an exasperated President Obama threw out the idea \u201cWhy don\u2019t we just tax the shit out of Todd? I mean, everyone here hates that guy. Right?\u201d  House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan ran with idea, responding, \u201cBased on my back-of-the-envelope calculations, we could actually generate $100 billion in revenue if we taxed Todd every time he took a shit.\u201d Sensing a breakthrough, both sides rushed to flesh out the plan. Revenue-generating fees include, among others, charging Todd every time he smiles and selling his cherished Pok\u00e9mon card collection on eBay, among others. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill will raise $6 trillion over ten years.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt\u2019s finally time for Todd to pay his fair share of the nation\u2019s debt burden. Which is all of it,\u201d President Obama announced in his closing remarks. A Gallup phone survey of 1,435 likely voters found 99.99% approved of the plan. As one respondent put it, \u201cIt warms my heart that, in our polarized times, Americans can come together in a  unanimous hatred of Todd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Timi Koyejo April 20, 2014 Following months of deliberation, Congressional leaders and President Obama have announced in a joint bipartisan news conference their plan to eliminate the budget deficit entirely through funds generated by Todd. The elusive, so-called \u201cGrand Bargain\u201d was finally hammered out early this morning in Roosevelt Room of the White House, where the key players of the budget negotiations met to finalize the deal. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said to reporters, \u201cWe realized that instead of trying to spread the pain around, and then fight over who gets screwed over, we should just dump it all on Todd.\u201d The talks&#8217; culminationappeared headed for collapse, as negotiators struggled to decide whose back to balance the budget on. Suggestions to balance the budget on the backs of the those that could least afford it, grandmothers with terminal cancer, a small-town girl livin&#8217; in a lonely world, homeless veterans, small business owners just getting by, large business owners barely making it, the hard-working middle class, a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, our future generations, our forefathers, defenseless defense contractors, and job creators were all ruled out. Senior administration officials report that the meeting&#8217;s turning point took place when an exasperated President Obama threw out the idea \u201cWhy don\u2019t we just tax the shit out of Todd? I mean, everyone here hates that guy. Right?\u201d House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan ran with idea, responding, \u201cBased on my back-of-the-envelope calculations, we could actually generate $100 billion in revenue if we taxed Todd every time he took a shit.\u201d Sensing a breakthrough, both sides rushed to flesh out the plan. Revenue-generating fees include, among others, charging Todd every time he smiles and selling his cherished Pok\u00e9mon card collection on eBay, among others. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill will raise $6 trillion over ten years. \u201cIt\u2019s finally time for Todd to pay his fair share of the nation\u2019s debt burden. Which is all of it,\u201d President Obama announced in his closing remarks. A Gallup phone survey of 1,435 likely voters found 99.99% approved of the plan. As one respondent put it, \u201cIt warms my heart that, in our polarized times, Americans can come together in a unanimous hatred of Todd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}