{"id":775,"date":"2010-06-14T23:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/a-trillion-here-a-trillion-there.html"},"modified":"2010-06-14T23:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:31:41","slug":"a-trillion-here-a-trillion-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/06\/a-trillion-here-a-trillion-there.html","title":{"rendered":"A trillion here, a trillion there…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now it might cost up to $1 trillion <\/a>to rescue Fannie and Freddie, in what one insider calls “the mother of all bailouts.” James Poulos says:<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s one thing for a government to spend more money than we have. It’s another to spend more than we can imagine. Cross that threshold, and people will start to ask: how imaginary is the value<\/em> of this unimaginable amount of money?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now it might cost up to $1 trillion to rescue Fannie and Freddie, in what one insider calls “the mother of all bailouts.” James Poulos says: It’s one thing for a government to spend more money than we have. It’s another to spend more than we can imagine. 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