Powerpoint is evil

If you want to understand why I think Powerpoint is an evil invention intended to insult our intellligence and reduce even complex topics to a meaningless mush of inane nothingness not worth the the wasted ink it uses let alone the countless trees it kills, take a look at this wonderful graphic ,that my beloved just sent me, from the Washington Post which delivers a huge amount of information in an easy to understand diagram that can be printed on a single newsheet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/02/01/GR2009020100154.html

...or if you prefer the office Satan

STIMULUS PACKAGE

• Total cost - $819 billion
• Top five areas of spending - health, housing, states, Medicare, tax credits
• Spending and tax cuts
• Peak year - 2010 - $236 billion
• Final year of spending - 2019