Linda Bilmes: "The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush"

In a new article in Harpers Magazine, Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz estimate that the cost of undoing the Bush administrations economic choices, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the collapse of the financial system, soaring debt, and new commitments to interest payments and medicare, all add up to over 10 trillion dollars.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/linda_bilmes_the_10_trillion_hangover

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[thnksmarter]

You're kidding right? Have you even read the $3 Trillion War? She has a very prestigious government service background, especially in being commissioned during Clinton's administration. Sometimes posing statements of ignorance about someone else' ignorance are best kept reserved.

[incredulous007]

@jjpcondor Look who's talking. Go ahead and poke your head back into the sand where it's obviously been for the last 10 years! 

[jjpcondor]

Linda Bilmes is just so ignorant.

[adrianfi7]

bush is with out question the greatest traitor in history. he is beyond evil.

[silversalvo]

Thanks for having uploaded this. Interesting if not distressing ;) Keep it up!