As President Obama and Congress wrangle over how to wring savings from the federal budget, Jon Stewart took his own crack at doing that last night on The Daily Show. Yet even with the help of Watson, the supercomputer that beat human competitors on Jeopardy this week, he couldn’t make the math work.
So why is it so hard to produce a federal budget?
“The trick is to get it to vastly increase the deficit,” Stewart said “while still giving Americans the shoddy and indifferent government bureaucracy we’ve come to expect.”
Then, donning a green accountant’s visor, Stewart began flailing around on an adding machine in hopes of producing his own budget. He was quickly stumped and, exasperated, turned to Watson for the correct answer.
Watch the video:
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