Obama's Trillion-Dollar Week


	Obama's Trillion-Dollar Week

RecordSage

2-17-2009 3:10 AM

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obama, deficit, record

RecordSage says:

That's with an 'M', no perhaps 'B'... no apparently all the way to 'T' now.

It'll be interesting to look back in a year and see how much this obscene amount of money actually accomplishes for the economy and for the country.

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