40 things that have changed since the last Federal budget was passed.
The last time a budget was passed in the Democrat-controlled Senate was April 9, 2009. That’s exactly 1400 days ago today.
To mark such a momentous occasion, I thought I’d take a look back at how the world was before April 9, 2009. A lot has changed since then…
- Manti Te'o hadn’t yet played his first game as a freshman at Notre Dame
- Michael Jackson was still alive.
- The iPhone didn’t support 3G data networks.
- Susan Boyle hadn’t yet been discovered on Britain’s Got Talent
- Conan O'Brien was the host of the Tonight Show on NBC
- Nobody had ever heard of Ke$ha
- Obamacare hadn’t yet passed.
- Hannah Montana The Movie was #1 at the box office
- The first episode of Jersey Shore hadn’t yet aired
- George Steinbrenner was still alive and the owner of the Yankees
- A gallon of gasoline cost only $2.06
- Obama had not yet won a Nobel Peace Prize
- Gold cost $958 per ounce
- Everybody still thought Tiger Woods was a classy guy
- Anthony Weiner was still in Congress
- Neither the Vancouver nor the London Olympics had happened
- Justin Bieber had never released an album
- The United States had a AAA credit rating with every agency
- You could still buy a 100 watt incandescent light bulb
- Charlie Sheen still starred on Two and Half Men
- The Saints had never won the Super Bowl
- Amy Winehouse was still making music
- Brett Farve played quarterback for the New York Jets
- Bernie Maddoff was still operating his ponzi scheme
- Lance Armstrong was still riding in the Tour De France
- David Hasselhof was judge on America’s Got Talent
- Seve Jobs was still the CEO of Apple
- Oprah Winfrey still had a daytime TV show
- Chrysler and GM had not yet filed for bankruptcy
- The H1N1 Swine Flu scare hadn’t happened
- Hosni Mubarak was the President of Egypt
- Ted Kennedy was still a Senator
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince hadn’t yet released to theaters
- Myspace was more popular than Twitter
- BP had not yet spilled 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
- Skinny jeans were not yet a fashion trend
- Osama Bin Laden was still hiding out in Pakistan
- Prince William hadn’t yet proposed to Kate Middleton
- The National Debt was less than $11 Trillion
- Tim Tebow was still playing for the Florida Gators
This is just the tip of the iceberg. A lot of stuff has happened in the past 1400 days, but a budget passing the US Senate is not one of them.