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Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

The Onion · 4.8M views · 2008-11-13 · 2:05

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Overview

An Onion News Network satirical panel segment debating whether the government should stop pouring money into a giant desert hole during a recession.

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HN uses it as a recurring joke reference for wasteful spending and pointless money pits.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2012–2024

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What people said

wormlord · 2024-09 · Joke / meme

Isn't this kind of "burying the lede" where the real 'alarmingness' is the fact that people are so willing to kill someone they have never met, going off of very little information, with a missile from the sky, even in a simulation? This reminds me of that Onion skit where pundits argue about how money should be destroyed, and everyone just accepts the fact that destroying money is a given. [VIDEO]

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Slow_Hand · 2024-04 · Joke / meme

This is a slightly different topic (government spending), but I've always loved this old Onion News Network video: 'Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?'. The sentiment feels the same to me: [VIDEO]

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thematrixturtle · 2022-06 · Joke / meme

The Onion's meditations on the difference, aka "Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?" [VIDEO]

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