As Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, was about to press the button to start printing $600 billion more dollars, a flash of light streaked across the skies above and came to rest beside him.

Was it an Obama thought bubble or the light at the end of the tunnel? No it was Palinpower.

‘Stop the presses’ yelled Palinpower ‘and stop stuffing the US economy with dollars we can’t afford. They’ll do about as much good as Nancy Pelosi at a Tea Party rally’

‘You can’t come in here’ said Ben ‘This facility is off-limits to everyone except people like me who are in positions of trust’

‘You can’t be trusted Ben’ said Palinpower ‘you’re flooding the market with billions of dollars of monopoly money. Do not pass go, do not collect a job, go direct to Obamacare and pay a trillion’

‘The economy’s very fragile’ said Ben ‘it needs more funds pumped into it to avoid deflation’

‘It needs you to stop meddling’ said Palinpower ‘If you deflate it you’ll take the wind out of its’ sails and if you inflate it you’ll blow it up. First thing you must do is cut costs and spending else this country’s going to sink faster than a sheikh up shit creek’

‘Ok then’ said Ben ‘what steps would you take to cut spending?’

‘Well first of all I’d fire you’ said Palinpower ‘If we could save your salary and all the billions you’re pissing away the country would be back on its feet in no time. It’s all about jobs Ben, getting people back to work’

‘Precisely’ said Ben ‘that’s why I’m creating thousands of jobs for people in the dollar printing business. I have calculated that if I printed an extra ten trillion dollars I could find jobs for all the fifteen million unemployed in this country’

‘Oh that’s brilliant’ said Palinpower ‘and I suppose they’ll be on overtime each week printing their own wages’

‘This is all part of a grand fiscal plan’ said Ben ‘which is obviously beyond your intellect and capacity. If we devalue the US dollar to the point where it’s worthless we’re going to be highly competitive against China in world markets’

‘Did you and Obama think up that plan for yourselves?’ asked Palinpower ‘or did you get help from Bernie Madoff and people on hallucinatory drugs? If you carry on like this we’ll soon be qualifying for foreign aid from the Cocos Islands’

‘I can’t stand here all day chatting to you’ said Ben ‘I’ve got dollars to print and an economy to save’

‘Don’t you dare press that ‘Start’ button on the printing machine’ said Palinpower ‘If you do I’ll come straight back to kick you in the futures exchange. The bucks stop here’

‘With that she was gone in a flash leaving Ben to ponder the futility of getting the FBI to put a rocket up her backside.