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Posts Tagged ‘trillion’

George Bush’s Budget Saves Economy!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Acting President George Walker Bush revealed his new budget today for FY2009, and it’s the first to top $3 trillion! To put “$3 trillion” in perspective: that’s $30 billion times infinity, plus several billion more dollars. MORE »


Trillion-Dollar Freedom On The March

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

'Jesus fucking christ that's a lot of money!' - WonketteRemember when that Iraq War was pretty much going to pay for itself — from the $20 billion in annual oil revenues! — and certainly wouldn’t cost the U.S. more than maybe $60 billion, but more likely about $10 billion? Paul Wolfowitz said this in congressional testimony so you know it must’ve been true. And top White House economics guy Lawrence Lindsey must’ve been totally wrong when he guesstimated a $100 billion to $200 billion price tag, because he was fired as soon as he mentioned that to the Wall Street Journal.

Anyway, the White House just demanded another $190 billion on top of the $602 billion Congress has already spent on Iraq (and Afghanistan, whatever that is). We’re almost at $800 billion dollars, people! And you know what that means: Only $200 billion more to Victory! (By the way, U.S. gross domestic product in 2006 was $13 trillion.)

Pentagon seeks $190 bln more for Iraq, Afghanistan [Reuters]