In Will Ferrell’s Basketball Comedy Semi-Pro, the actor plays a struggling basketball player, owner, and promoter who comes up with the gimmick of offering $10K for a nearly impossible “Moon shot.” Ferrell was trying to get people excited about his franchise. When a super fan makes it, Ferrell offers him a glittery, cardboard, gigantic check, telling him he needs to go to a Big Bank with a “big check department” to cash the bad paper. Fiction seems close to fact right now as Congress prepares to write a BIG check, $3.5 trillion that is to be a new franchise for socialism and