when asked about HIS deficit, he commented that the deficit was "just a number". He at least had the decency to NOT say, "so what? What is your point?" Quite a "meh" moment... 
Call me a cynical bastard, but with all these trillions being spent, apparently we can afford a lot more than we have been led to believe.
Can you imagine if, before this clusterfuck, these TENS OF TRILLIONS had been thrown at the infrastructure, health care and education? In healthcare alone, this fiasco could have been lessened HUGHLY!!! (sic)
We could have good paying jobs in construction (and the related economies), building roads that do not destroy the vehicles that use them, bridges that are in safe condition NOT verging on collapse, a highspeed train system following the interstate system (a NEW, IMPROVED AMTRAK!!!), solar energy, wind energy, with new jobs in a new technological economy, plus EDUCATING students to FILL those new jobs in the new technology, resulting in MUCH cleaner air... the mind boggles at what could have been.
But you can bet your ass that as soon as $$ are recommended for THOSE items, it will "break the bank".
Meanwhile, the big corporations are lining up for their bailouts. Apparently the whole corporate system is arranged that they can make billions year after year after year, but ONE BAD YEAR and they all go bankrupt, requiring the tax payers to give them money to stay afloat.
Me thinks the game is rigged in THEIR favor, and against US.
But as I said, I am a cynical bastard.
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