The New Six-Word Motto for the U.S. Is …

You submitted your mottoes, more than 300 strong.
You voted on the six finalists.
So you, dear blog readers, are solely responsible for having chosen the United States’ new six-word motto.
The finalists were:
1. Consumption’s the Cure That Ails Us. (Submitted by Quin.)
2. We Will Get It Right, Eventually. (Herb)
3. We Are Too Big to Fail. (Jonathan)
4. The Streets Are Paved With CASH4GOLD.COM. (James)
5. Learn to Live Within Your Means. (Greg)
6. Wow, Can You Believe This Place? (Ms. Fortune)
In an incontrovertible landslide — it’s a motto we can believe in — the winner was:
We Are Too Big to Fail.
I think this would look really good inscribed on our currency and T-bills. Congratulations to Jonathan, the winner, who’ll receive his choice of Freakonomics schwag.
Here are the percentages gleaned by each of the six finalists:
We Are Too Big to Fail. (48 percent)
Consumption’s the Cure That Ails Us. (18 percent)
We Will Get It Right, Eventually. (10 percent)
The Streets Are Paved With CASH4GOLD.COM. (9 percent)
Learn to Live Within Your Means. (8 percent)
Wow, Can You Believe This Place? (7 percent)
Last year’s winning motto was “Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay.” That would seem to have been proven true.
Hopefully this year’s motto will turn out to be just as true.
[NOTE: I discussed the motto contest on The Takeway.]