LA: If it is any consolation, US debt limit is now $9 Trillion. And the government is already close to touching it. There is little chance of increasing that limit in a political year without creating a Ross Perot (or Ralph Nader) type populist firestorm. Ron Paul is already sounding like a insurgent. Every available red cent will be used to finance Bush's pet project – Iraq. The only large-scale intervention I can imagine is lot of Katrina style FEMA trailers (built by Halliburton?) for the newly homeless
