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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Perspective

The Obama deficit for this fiscal year is 1.84 trillion. How much is a trillion? It is a million million. If you spend one dollar a second: 1 million seconds = 11 days 1 billion seconds = 31 years 1 trillion seconds = 310 centuries 1.84 trillion seconds = 570 centuries. As Margaret Thatcher said: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

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