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	<title><![CDATA[The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/the-3-trillion-shopping-s_b_100857.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>THAT WAS FUN. Just got done spending $3 trillion. <a
href="http://3trillion.org">Try it yourself</a> - it's a lot harder
than you might think. Honestly, it would have been a whole lot easier
just to follow the president's example and blow it all on one illegal
occupation of Iraq.

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$3 trillion is the projected cost of the Iraq War according to Nobel
Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard lecturer Linda
Bilmes. That's a whole lot of zeros, but what does it really amount
to? How many homes would it buy...</p></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-10-13T13:29:00-04:00</date_published>
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