>>It is a budget deficit number.
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>Ever heard of printing dollars for nothing and export your inflation?
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>It is beyond me that you call a deficit of 2000B a rip off from the tax payers. That 2000B was borrowed from other countries or printed for free and returned in the US economy. It is a number indicating that the US citizen are living a standard above what they could afford.
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>If they had a plus of 2000B and they did not do anything with it, I would call it a ripp-off, because then they would collect taxes and keeping it for themselves.

Sure, Walter, whatever it goes, it is a big American fault.

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>And how exactly did it went up in smoke? Its a deficit, so that money never existed before and will be created after. This 2000B deficit is created because of "unethical greed" of banks and corporations, failed politics of the Bush administration and unneeded aggression against other nations. The taxpayers pay the bill for that right now.
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>For all those who think that AIG should fall. Do you really have a clue what this means to the Joe Average? Most of those who are responsible for this already have gotten their money out of it, and really don't give a sh*t about whether it is taken over or would fall over. So who are you trying to punish ??? What do you think that would change anything ??? Those hard working americans that have put their money into AIG?? That is a hard price to pay.
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Gee. Hard-working put their money in AIG? Do you know what AIG stands for?