Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: January 09, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives: "But that's just the borrowing over the next decade. Privatization would cost an additional $3 trillion in its second decade, $5 trillion in the decade after that and another $5 trillion in the decade after that. By the time privatization started to save money, if it ever did, the federal government would have run up around $15 trillion in extra debt. "