They're in Charge?

How dumb is this guy? Sen. Judd Gregg, from NH is the Rethuglican Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Let me say that again – the Senate Budget Committee. This committee is responsible for drafting Congress' annual budget plan and monitoring action on the budget for the Federal Government. Wouldn't it be natural for the members of this group to actually have some idea about money? Numbers? Debits or credits? You'll be disappointed...

"It's hard to understand what a trillion is. I don't know what it is," confessed Senate Budget Committee Chairman Gregg, this week when debating the government's staggering fiscal obligations. America's debt limit has recently been raised in Congress by $780,000,000,000. It is now $9,000,000,000,000. The Republicans, a self styled party of fiscal restraint, have now raised the debt limit ~$3 trillion - four times since 2002.

Senators – note:
Anyone know what a billion is??? One billion is 1,000,000,000. One trillion is 1,000,000,000,000.

As rumored to have been said by the late Sen. Everett Dirksen, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”

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