American Elephants


Irresponsible! by The Elephant's Child
May 15, 2009, 11:12 pm
Filed under: Capitalism, Economy, Law | Tags: , ,

All those zeroes are hard to understand.  Millions and billions and trillions all sort of melt together. Can you write $1.8 trillion with the correct number of zeroes?  That is the projection for the 2009 budget deficit. Polls suggest that the public tolerates these large deficits because they believe them to be temporary.  Dream on.

Here’s another video that attempts to put the spending in comprehensible terms.

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