NINE TRILLION is the number !!! With QE 8 always in place from 2012-10 and to infinity, Nine Trillion is chicken scratch . Sloth
Government is now so big that the feet cannot communicate with the so-called brains, and the brains don't even know what the feet are supposed to be doing.
Well we know at least $2.5 trillion has gone to foreign banks. The stock market is not surging from retained earnings. And there are a boatload of politicians that need frequent vacations, more houses, etc. There is a reason there are still large numbers if very wealthy living the high life while most economies are dragging or swirling down.
When the Russians had their revolution about one third of the people disappeared. The entire upper/middle class just vanished. Some escaped but most ended up as wolf food.
upper/middle class ?? I wonder where I'm at in that measurement . I consider myself as white old phart & always in the way !!! Sloth