Obviously, we missed our chance to sell another nine trillion in Treasuries; too bad, maybe we could have rebuilt some roads or offered decent education to our children; or let me guess; fought another three wars? At any rate, the economy is doing great, we are strong, and hell, we are only 9.4 trillion in debt - which is obviously less than ten times our national income. Thanks for straightening me out. No sense in me wasting any more of your precious time.

... except, you didn't exactly address the size of the deficit; is that important? Oh yeah, I forgot, Cheney cleared that up, deficits don't matter. Never mind, I'm good... thanks for helping me.

Will you be running for office? We could use a guy like you as Secretary of the Treasury. That post is so hard to fill, these days. You should give it some thought.