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I always thought Barack sounded more like a currency than a first name.
"So that's 2 happy meals and an apple pie. That'll be Bks15 (baracks) please."

I'm fond of the terabuck.

What Jennifer said. She may have been here first but that would have been my vote too.

And the number's too big for the subject line. That's just another bad omen.

If the US GDP, is, by any measure to be believed (somewhere in the 14 trillion range, and shrinking), And if this picture is any indication, then I might say we can call that unit a quarter, or maybe a dime, or maybe even a "hey penny".

EDIT: The public sector debt shown, obviously does not reflect unfunded liabilities such as medi-caid, medi-cal, SS,or whatever as well as various other "Off Balance-Sheet" shenanigans. But if it did, it'd be all the worse.

Are you makin' fun of me!? Are you? Do I look Like a clown to ya?! Do I?! :) I didn't come outa no vagina, wait, well, maybe, um, ya,

That still doesn't seem steep enough for the later W years. Was the whole Iraq war "Off Balance-Sheet"? What about the Farm bills and Highway bill?

At any rate you've got your sights right on target Kris. Everything economic these days stems from debt. We're too deep into it. The only way to get healthy is to start paying it down. Course that means putting off the house, new car, HDTV, iPhone, dinner out, trip to the lake, etc etc. It's called withdrawal pains and we're gonna feel em. The only question is how bad and for how long. But lets not worry about that now, the government is about to rain cash on us. And by us I mean the most well connected parts of the establishment.

No offense, it's just the hot new catchphrase I'm trying to make popular.

That's the way Stevo, you are the market. Control the people's language, and you control their thoughts. It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Keep towing that lion.

heh, "Pesos" ;-P