While most of the American people are trying to figure out how to afford even a scaled-down holiday season, the Democrats in Congress continue to spend the taxpayers' money like...well...Democrats. They got the 60 Senate votes they needed to prevent a Republican filibuster and are about to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget increases.

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The latest cost estimate for the Senate healthcare reform bill is $1.6 trillion. (source) For most of us whose real-world fiscal familiarity stops somewhere in the hundreds of thousands, the $757 billion stimulus bill was tough enough to wrap our minds around. $1.6 trillion? How are we supposed to know if we're getting a good deal on something when we can't even comprehend the cost?

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The deficit chart currently shown today at drudgereport.com is what I've been screaming about now for the last few weeks. The 1.75T deficit is a conservative figure though I think -- Either way, at 2T they've done as much damage to our debt within SIX WEEKS as the Bush administration did in oh, about five years!

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