Lesson on Presidential spending

[Gonz]

It ain't the Prez.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday passed an election-year budget plan forsaking President Bush's tax cuts and Medicare curbs, hours after lifting the ceiling on the national debt to $9 trillion.

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how many zeroes in a bazillion?

 

[unclehobart]

Only slightly more than there were at Pearl Harbor.

If they keep raising it on a whim, why do they even bother referring to it as a ceiling?

 

[Gonz]

It looks good on paper?

 

[unclehobart]

Like they could find it...

The damn budgets are like 17,000 pages long. Just reading it takes longer than a beard takes to hit the knees.