February 6, 2009 12:56PM 

# How Much Booze Will $900 Gazillion Buy? 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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In [this week’s edition](http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35) 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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