February 6, 2009 12:56PM

How Much Booze Will $900 Gazillion Buy?

By Michael F. Cannon

In this week’s edition of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, the NPR news quiz, host Peter Sagal quips:

After binging for a decade with money we don’t have, President Obama decided the only way out of the crisis is to spend almost $1 trillion we don’t have either. This is like curing a hangover by buying a distillery.

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