Craig Lalley wrote:
>              The Senate voted Thursday to allow  the national debt to 
> swell to nearly $9 trillion, preventing a  first-ever default on U.S. 
> Treasury notes.
>  **********
>  To which I would like to add
>
>  "The deficit is really pretty simple. It takes years of expensive formal 
> education to not understand it."

There was also this article in a satirical news website:

Family Applies Republican Fiscal Policy To Own Lives - 14 Perish
http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Local/GOPFamily.htm

Citing prevailing conservative philosophy that reducing direct income while 
increasing spending will ultimately yield a higher rate of revenue, family 
patriarch J.D. Abbot initiated his ill-fated campaign by quitting his job as 
a carpenter in early February, telling his foreman, "Go hire yourself a 
chinaman. Grunt work aint no kind of work for an American," and immediately 
went shopping, maxing out his credit card on guns and liquor. 

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