[lbo-talk] What Does 10 (or 11) Trillion Dollars Actually Mean?

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Wed Oct 1 12:44:04 PDT 2003


andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>>Interviewer (paraphrase): 87 billion dollars is a
>>lot
>>of money, can we afford this with a sputtering
>>economy?
>>
>>Krauthammer (paraphrase): Well, the US has an 11
>>trillion dollar economy so I think we can handle
>>such
>>an expense. Plus, we must rebuild...yadda, yadda,
>>yadda.
>>
"Well, Mr. Krauthammer, how would you feel if, in order to pay for the war, we eliminated funding to the disabled?"



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