POTUS: $17 Billion is 'A Lot of Money'

ABC News ^ | May 07, 2009 | Jake Tapper/Yunji de Nies

[Mr. K]

Then I wonder what he thinks the $3.4 TRILLION is?

[MEGoody]

Yes, $17B is a lot of money. But not as much as you have increased the deficit, Barry.

[Syncro]

Interest on the debt as of a few days ago, approximately:

• One million dollars a minute

• One trillion dollars a year.

[McGruff]

Sounds like a job for a Ross Perot Pie chart.

[microgood]

This guy is a clown.

[Syncro]

Then I wonder what he thinks the $3.4 TRILLION is?

OPM*

*Other People's Money

[a fool in paradise]

“A government that does what we need it to do –- and nothing we don’t.”

Doesn’t sound so articulate there.

“Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.” - Ronald Reagan.

[avacado]

"All told, by the end of my first and LAST term we will cut the deficit in half...."

$80 billion? The last Republican Congress budget for fiscal 2007 had a deficit of $160 billion. You gonna cut that in half you flaming-non-American-asshat!!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Obama: "I need some of this walking around money from your jar..."

[AHerald]

A cheeky sonofagun. Amazing that he can keep himself from snickering in public at just how easy it is for him to get away with his BS.

[webschooner]

This guy is an ass clown.

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[Tublecane]

“These savings, large and small, add up. The 121 budget cuts we are announcing today will save taxpayers nearly $17 billion next year alone. That’s a lot of money, even by Washington standards”

No, it’s not. Can the MSM still call him a silver-togued fox after laughable statements like this? Or does it not count if they don’t report it?

[TomGuy]

For the newsbyte and the public,

$17 billion sounds more impressive than $3.4 trillion.

The general public has a difficult time conceiving what a billion is. They have even greater difficulty conceiving what a trillion is.

[Buckeye McFrog]

his whole administration seems to be based around the George Lackoff theory that the average American Sheeple cannot get his mind around nor distingush between a billion, a trillion, or a gazillion....

[Tublecane]

“All told, by the end of my first term...”

Oh, so he’s going to have more than one term? This can’t be his “first term” if he isn’t re-elected in four years. Don’t we usually let the American voter decide that?

[Safetgiver]

That’s a lot of money, even by Washington standards”....I heard some radio commentator today who said it is the equivalent of turning off one light bulb on the Vegas Strip.

[McGruff]

Now look at this Larry,

Is that what he meant by CHANGE?

[KarlInOhio]

How much of this proposed $17 billion cut will actually get through the Democratic Congress? It will probably turn into a $100 billion increase.

[The Good Doctor]

I fully expect to see this imformative, easy to understand graph prominently displayed on all the nightly news casts. /s