Congress Asks Taylor Swift for a Bailout
In an unprecedented move, Congress has pinned all hope for the future economic health of the United States on one woman, teenage singing sensation Taylor Swift. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid officially requested Swift’s aid in a letter sent by courier just this morning: “We don’t know exactly how much you’re making, but it’s more than we’ve got. And by ‘we’ I mean the United States government. Please help. Signed, Harry.”
Swift, who was hairbrush-singing to a Shakira song with friend Abigail when the letter arrived, expressed her willingness to help in a post on her Myspace blog: “I just voted in my first presidential election this past year, so to be asked now – just a few months later – to donate all my past and future earnings in order to briefly delay or offset a dangerous and possibly apocalyptic economic crisis on behalf of my country is a big deal for me. It’s an honor and I feel like it’s the least that I can do for all my amazing fans… and the economic system that tenuously supports their existence. By the way, ‘White Horse’ is at radio now, so call and request it! Love you guys!”
Swift is expeced to sign all of her accounts and assets over to the government sometime this afternoon. Sources report that once Swift’s country/pop dominance officially becomes a national financial security interest, all who dare disparage the young star will be arrested, held indefinitely, and eventually transferred to an undisclosed offshore location which will hopefully be ready to receive them no later than January 22, 2010.
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Uh oh, I’m going to be in neck deep do-do real soon (ie Roni Stoneman style)! If they expand this policy to include Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts, I’ll never be a free man again! Damn these Obamanomics! I guess I’ve never fully appreciated our “free enterprise” system until today now that it’s too late! (What was that Joni Mitchell song about a parking lot? Hmmm..)
Will the “Taylor Swift” stimulus package come with requirements that recipients must purchase Taylor’s CD’s if they don’t already own them? I don’t see massive competing “New Deal” style public works projects stimulating the economy, but I might actually use some of their results…..
(Great work Trailer!)
Thanks… CM gets most of the applause this go round though… my idea, but he filled in the blanks.
What Trailer said. Aside from the headline, I’ll take most of the blame for this one.
So I take it Alison Bonarugo will be doing all of the arresting?
O I do think the entire music industry will be getting a stimulus soon, based on last nights grammy’s!