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Additional $1.9 TRILLION in Debt

Tarheel

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Additional $1.9 TRILLION in Debt
« on: January 29, 2010, 05:45:25 PM »
How do these thieves, crooks, and liars rationalize spending this kind of money from the Treasury?!  I'm absolutely baffled at this fucking spending spree after all the talk last election cycle (on both sides of aisle) about cutting spending?!  Do they realize that with all this spending hyper-inflation is likely to make all of our hard earned money worthless! And The ONE's tyrannical rule over America is going to make the Wiemar Republic look like the Elysian Fields when compared to the devastated economy he's going to create for us.  Of course it's all Bush's Fault.

Here's an excerpt from an article on Breitbart.com, all emphasis is my own:

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Senate permits gov't to borrow an additional $1.9T
Jan 28 12:26 PM US/Eastern
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-controlled Senate has muscled through a plan to allow the government to go a whopping $1.9 trillion deeper in debt.

The party-line 60-40 vote was successful only because Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown has yet to be seated. Sixty votes were required to approve the increase. The measure would lift the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. That's about $45,000 for every American.
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Full story:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DGSHEO0&show_article=1
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Re: Additional $1.9 TRILLION in Debt
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2010, 05:51:24 PM »
Don't worry, the spending freeze will offset this. It's Bush's fault anyway.  

 :rofl:

Why doesn't it surprise me that Obama was perplexed about why Republicans fought the $700+ billion spending spree tooth and nail.
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