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| January 7, 2011 5:00 AM

Don't even think of lining up 13.9 trillion dollar bills end-on-end in order to create some kind of visual metaphor for our national debt. The human brain is incapable of comprehending a number this big, but one thing we all know: The debt is unacceptably gigantic. It also threatens our national security.

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