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> I can't help but think that's meaningless when you've got an $18 trillion deficit.

We get deficits via a lot of $6.3M/yr expenditures.



How about $1.1 trillion from the last war?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War


Nope. The deficit is $18 trillion. Can't be the reason.


The US government's total debt is around 18 trillion. The federal deficit is around 500 billion and falling.


...and falling.

...and rising, and falling, and rising, etc. Short-term movement depends on the economy and on the year of Presidential tenure (i.e. expect more spending in year one than year seven). The total over any decade is unlikely to be a surplus.


No, i don't think so. Do you have the data to support that?


#Zeno's_paradox #infinitedivisibilityofmoney


Look, if you can't answer the question, and the best you can come up with is "that money is just lots $1 dollars...", you probably deserve what you're gonna get once interest rates go up and you're spending $1 trillion in interest.




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