Duck on River, Big One

OK, so basically, once you've stimulated the economy by paying for people to do almost everything except for useful things, there can only be one rational thing left to do.

And that, of course, is to put a big duck on a river:

In fact, this wasn't a stimulus program, but ended up working much better than current ideas. Hundreds of people stand here everyday, just looking at the duck. Some of them are so impressed, they go into the nearby bar, or McDonalds, to contemplate what this all means. The duck is a symbol of peace, a universal unifying symbol of goodness, transcending all the divisions that divide us, and other warm feelings as well. (That's according to the blurb on the side of the duck).




















See - look how peaceful you are observing the duck!




















How about now?



















And this, of course, is just like the market - it is occasionally tricky telling apart fantasy from reality.