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Thread #103880 Message #2122594
Posted By: pdq
09-Aug-07 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Politics- Are We Gender Voters?
Subject: RE: BS: US Politics- Are We Gender Voters?
I believe there are several places where the National Debt graf is shown. Try Google.
Remeber, 'budget' is propsed spending and is never the same as actual spending. Actual spending will (by definition) raise the National Debt when expenditures exceed the money taken in.
Even worse, the excess money taken in under the guise of Social Security is dumped into the General Fund and spent each year. There are only IOU's left. That (Social Security) surplus is not accounted for in the same way as taxes, but it is used to make annual debt figures look better> than they really are.