Comments on: Six Years After Cheney Said ‘Deficits Don’t Matter,’ The National Debt Hits A 50-Year High http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/cheney-deficit-debt/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: realist101 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/cheney-deficit-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-2614 realist101 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:37:16 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/cheney-deficit-debt/#comment-2614 Yep, what a world. We've gotten hard goods for pieces of paper that don't have anything behind them. And now we'll print more to bail out the economy. And countries still look to us as a safe haven for their money. Go figure. Oh I know, they'll be going somewhere else soon. Yeah, right. Yep, what a world. We’ve gotten hard goods for pieces of paper that don’t have anything behind them.

And now we’ll print more to bail out the economy. And countries still look to us as a safe haven for their money. Go figure.

Oh I know, they’ll be going somewhere else soon. Yeah, right.

]]> By: Keith http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/cheney-deficit-debt/comment-page-1/#comment-2612 Keith Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:03:02 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/cheney-deficit-debt/#comment-2612 But it would be more than $12.7 trillion since that figure was given in August before the recent bailouts were known. How much do all the recent bailouts total? Are you saying $1.6 trillion? That's starting to be serious money. But it would be more than $12.7 trillion since that figure was given in August before the recent bailouts were known. How much do all the recent bailouts total? Are you saying $1.6 trillion? That’s starting to be serious money.

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