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Current Events => Political Ammunition => Topic started by: zeitgeist on August 24, 2012, 04:19:52 PM
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This ran in the local fish wrap a few days ago. I thought it to be interesting and straight forward.
August 21, 2012 2:00 AM
Aug. 15 — To the Editor:
I came across the federal budget, revenue, national debt, annual new debt and recent budget cuts. Amazingly, if you take $00,000,000 off each line item you come up with the approximate numbers for an annual household budget. The numbers are as follows:
U.S. tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
New debt: $1,650,000,000,000
National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
Recent budget cuts: $38,500,000,000
Let's now remove eight zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
Annual family income: $21,700
Money the family spent: $38,200
New debt on the credit card: $16,500
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Total budget cuts so far: $385
I hope people check my numbers to see whether they are correct, because if they are, we are in big trouble as a nation.
David Forman
Portsmouth
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Sounds about right.
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The Herald actually PRINTED this?
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The Herald actually PRINTED this?
Scarry, no? There have been a couple more common sense letters but they are the exception rather than the rule as you know.
May I suggest you read the comments on this one:
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120821-OPINION-208210394
There is some hope. Check this on too.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120823-OPINION-208230379
I believe you get ten free spins if you are not a subscriber or just clear cookies?