T-shirt opinions: National debt: Wear it on your sleeve

Anxieties over the nation's debt burden find expression in a cynically cheerful T-shirt

National debt: Wear it on your sleeve
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Amid alarming reports of government spending ($20 billion on air conditioning?), why not spend $23 to express your outrage? This cheerful "Obama National Debt" T-shirt subtly blames the debt crisis on the president by visually referencing his 2008 campaign logo, linking Obama to the economic torture of future generations: "National Debt: It's for the children."

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