Just think. If it wasn't for all of the fiscally conservative Republicans in Congress and a Republican President working so hard to keep a lid on spending and promoting limited government, we might have hit this debt ceiling as early as last week. < /sarcasm >
waaahooo!! go republicans!!!
Republocrats are in charge.
As long as the Seniors get to spend their SS checks at the casino...everything is fine!!!
Look on the bright side.
Now you can buy a helicopter with helicopter money and cut out the middle man.
Man! The minimum payment on that must be a PITA!
These seems like a completely BOGUS issue on the scale with global warming or Big Foot.
All money that comes into creation in a fractional reserve central bank system must be created as debt. If all of these debt-based 8.2 trillion dollars were paid back, an incredible amount of liquidity would pulled taken out ofd the system. The resulting economic collapse would make the Great Depression look like the greatest boom time ever in history.
By my public school calculations, that's $27,334 for each and every one of us. I'm not sure I got my money's worth.
Don't worry. Once we get a Republican majority in the house and senate and take the presidency in 2000, the Republicans will cut spending and make government smaller and less intrusive.
This "Smaller and more Conservative Government" under the Republicans isn't working out too well for taxpayers. It is time for the Constitution Party to come on board.
Big deal – its only money.
Oops – my beloved Camaro died and is in the category of uneconomically feasible to repair. I have to junk it and buy another car. Why couldn’t this have held off a few months?
We need more people to spread this debt around - darned planned parenthood!
Alright!! Tell us what we won, Bob!!
Pathetic. Waiting for people coming to tell us it is still better than the alternative in 5,4,3,2,1...
wow, $150 billion more in less than a month. At this rate we will be at $10 trillion before new years.
GO CONSERVATISM!
