$1.6 trillion "is a big number" - Rahm Emanuel

Washington Post (proudly part of the statist media regime) ^ | June 19, 2009 | Ceci Connolly

[SeattleBruce]

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel acknowledged that $1.6 trillion "is a big number" that forced administration aides and congressional staff to rework the plan. "Everybody now is going to take these bills back and come in below $1 trillion," he said yesterday.

[SeattleBruce]

Gee, you think? Let's get this in just shy of 1 Trillion...oh, those wacky Marxists...money is just a plaything to them...grrrrrr....

[keats5]

Like “just under one trillion” is a small number?

[pnh102]

Perhaps they should bring in Dr. Evil to make these announcements.

[Texas Eagle]

"Everybody now is going to take these bills back and come in below $1 trillion," he said yesterday.

Oh, good. Whew. I was worried there for a minute.

Asshole.

[I Hate Obama]

Yes Rahm good job. Now get back to class.

[Loyal Buckeye]

“Reworking” the number, not the plan.

[avacado]

The last Republican Congress budget was fiscal 2007: $160 billion budget deficit. And we use to scream about that!

[Recon Dad]

Just get it under the Trillion mark and we can sell it to the suckers.

They didn't do their homework on this to start with. They could have massaged the numbers to around $500 billion, it's just a number, nobody’s going to hold them to it.

[Yardstick]

Geithner knows a number beginning with T might get the public’s attention.

[Vaquero]

Ernst Röhm Emanuel

Ballerina, White House Chief of Staff

[EQAndyBuzz]

If they go from 1.6 trill to 900 bil either they cut out services or they cut out waste. If they cut waste, why didn’t they do that the first time?

[Yardstick]

Wow, $160 billion seems like small potatoes now. Amazing the difference an election can make.

[Erik Latranyi]

They didn't do their homework on this to start with. They could have massaged the numbers to around $500 billion, it's just a number, nobody’s going to hold them to it.

I think they did do their homework, except they can't find a way to keep it under $1 trillion.....it is that large, burdensome and out of control already.

Just imagine what reality will look like.

[Larry Lucido]

Yeah, it’s, like, “80% Off! Big savings!!!”

[Eye of Unk]

1,000,000,016,640 One trillion, sixteen thousand six hundred and forty Pennies [ One cube measuring 273 x 273 x 273 feet ] From right to left (to scale), we have the same old football field, then the Lincoln Memorial (yes, the one pictured on the back of the penny), then the Washington Monument (555 feet tall), then our cube of one trillion pennies, then the Empire State Building (1,250 feet tall), then the Sears Tower (1,450 feet tall). So, now, the question you're dying to ask: How many Pennies would it take to fill the Empire State Building? value $10,000,000,166.40 (Ten billion, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty cents) width 273 feet height 273 feet thickness 273 feet total weight 3,125,000 tons height stacked 986,426 Miles area (laid flat) 89,675.2 acres

[andy58-in-nh]

When you’re playing with other people’s money, it’s always “only a number”. Rahm wants to make us think they care. In truth: they could not care less. Power is its own reward for those who exercise it without license.

[Brilliant]

Under Obama, $1.6 trillion is a small number. Pocket change.

[KansasGirl]

Yep, and the media and the Democrats were screaming bloody murder about it. Now that we have a liberal- Democrat controlled Congress and Presidency, they they think deficits in the trillions are just fine and dandy.

I hate the media with a passion. Will the stupid half of America ever wake up or are they too brain-washed? Or is that brain-dead?

[Eye of Unk]

New york’s Empire State Building contains 37 million cubic feet of space (minus
the antenna structure). Using our cubic foot of pennies (49,152 total), it’s just a simple
multiplication problem - 37,000,000 x 49,152 = 1,818,624,000,000 pennies.

1.8 trillion pennies.

[Texas Eagle]

They could have massaged the numbers to around $500 billion, it's just a number, nobody’s going to hold them to it.

Amen. The only numbers they care about are poll numbers.

It's too bad we can't call Gallup, Rasmussen, Zogby, etc.

Or can we?