Originally Posted by buckwheat

In response to this most in-vogue of spending issues, Nancy Pelosi has appointed a board of 28,000 “scientists” to lead a study group. Nancy Pelosi commented, “Our qualifications for staffing are still within reasonable government margins. For instance, at a minimum all of our scientists are requested to posses a high school education, or GED. If lacking that, just a solid history of democratic fund raising will do”.

She continued, “We’re seeking good solid candidates that can write at least at the 3rd grade level denoted by multiple misspellings or writing in all lower case”. “The later is particularly appealing to us as it denotes an arrogance usually displayed by aspiring 3rd grade educated 60 year old intellectuals that haven’t quite made the grade”. Recent studies now indicate looking down the nose obscures the shift keys so there’s plenty of blame to go around.

“There’s a critical shortage of scientists nowadays, so we just lowered the bar a tick to keep the numbers up” grinned Ms. Clinton. “We foresaw this crises by pre-printing 8.5 million official Scientific diplomas of various fields of study. Any underprivileged person is an instant winner in the field of their choice”.

At last report she was handing out the diplomas at the entrance to voting booths. Any person signing and agreeing to basic Democratic principles received one.

Dr. Shiniqua Washington, PhD Fluid Physics, was a recent recipient of a new voting-booth diploma. She appeared resoundingly proud of her new acquisition when she was overheard asking “hey mudaafuka, you wants fries with dat?