By Early May the State Deficit Will Be $20 Gazillion Dollars

I go to the Stranger's Blog Slog for lighthearted fun like killer pitbulls and pedophile youth pastors, but now they can kill my soul with economic news as well. Consider these posts, ALL FROM TODAY:

• 9:58 a.m.: Unemployment Hits a 16 Year High
  
• 11:43 a.m.: Boeing Layoffs Announced
  
• 12:25 p.m.: Seattle PI Up For Sale
  
• 4:00 p.m.: A video on The Last Days of the PI

I think the best solution is to close the schools, all of them, for the remainder of the year. This will save money in teacher salaries, and the private schools can fill a void and make it a free market kind of deal. This will make certain folk deliriously happy, like me, because I could finally cross "Collect Unemployment" off of my bucket list.