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Yes, but How Big Is the National Debt in Football Terms?

Radley Balko | 2.2.2011 7:07 PM


Glad you asked.

My favorite: For the cost of the national debt, you could buy 1,105 giant foam "We're #1" fingers each for every man, woman, and child on the planet.

And it would probably still be more effective than the stimulus.

(Obligatory.)

Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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