Number of the Day

$1,197,000,000,000: The amount of US dollars spent as of June on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's one trillion, one hundred and ninety-seven billion dollars.

I can't wait until Congress is back in session so we can listen to them continue to squabble over "entitlement programs" that we can't afford.

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