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FEDERAL DEFICIT REALITY-U.S. Treasury Shows Actual 2003 Federal Deficit at $3.7 Trillion
gillespie research ^ | Sep. 7, 2004 | Walter J. "John" Williams

Posted on 09/08/2004 4:26:58 PM PDT by AdamSelene235

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1 posted on 09/08/2004 4:26:59 PM PDT by AdamSelene235
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Put in perspective, that means if the U.S. Treasury had seized all wages and salaries in 2003 with a 100% income tax, there still would have been a deficit!

Gibberish.

2 posted on 09/08/2004 4:28:41 PM PDT by untenured
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To: AdamSelene235
Ehhh... it's only money. </sarc>
3 posted on 09/08/2004 4:28:55 PM PDT by bikepacker67 (Sandy wasn't stuffing his socks, he was stuffing A sock.)
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Doggone Democrats need to stop all the free giveaways and liberal socialism programs.


5 posted on 09/08/2004 4:32:34 PM PDT by Viet-Boat-Rider (((KERRY IS A NARCISSISTIC LIAR, GOLDBRICKER, AND TRAITOR!)))
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To: untenured

Yes, it is gibberish.

Pass a law raising retirement age to 75, and voila! All is fine.

Also, I would like to see a comparison of total government debt to assets: government land, etc. Making Uncle Sam hold a debt-reduction sale might not be such a bad thing.


6 posted on 09/08/2004 4:33:55 PM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
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To: AdamSelene235

"What? Me worry?"

--Alfred E. Newman


7 posted on 09/08/2004 4:39:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: AdamSelene235

Thank Goodness Ol' LBJ combined SocSec and General Funds long ago so we don't have to face any real problems!


8 posted on 09/08/2004 4:43:21 PM PDT by litehaus
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To: AdamSelene235
No more drugs for this guy.
9 posted on 09/08/2004 4:52:04 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: Brilliant
--Alfred E. Newman

That's NEUMAN, guy. The name is NEUMAN.

10 posted on 09/08/2004 4:57:08 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Brilliant
--Alfred E. Newman

That's NEUMAN, guy. The name is NEUMAN.

11 posted on 09/08/2004 4:58:19 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: eno_; RightWhale
Making Uncle Sam hold a debt-reduction sale might not be such a bad thing.

China will probably foreclose on the deed to Alaska.
Lotsa oil and not many mouths to feed.

12 posted on 09/08/2004 5:04:48 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Alan Go!!!)
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To: Viet-Boat-Rider

Doggone Republicans need to stop all the free giveaways and liberal socialism programs to the illegal aliens.


13 posted on 09/08/2004 5:42:24 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Truth goes through three stages, ridiculed, violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident)
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To: B4Ranch

Bush needs to grab the reins of spending. Nixon lost the power to clamp down on spending. Remember: the role of Congress is to authorize spending. If the Executive chooses not exceed, or even come close to the authorization, Congress can pound sand.


14 posted on 09/08/2004 6:31:51 PM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
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To: AdamSelene235; Carry_Okie; forester; sasquatch; B4Ranch; SierraWasp; hedgetrimmer; knews_hound; ...

Personal list.


15 posted on 09/08/2004 6:33:54 PM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: eno_

The lives of 1000+ soldiers who have died fighting for a democracy in a corrupt desert country and the freebies to illegal aliens is where the costs are that will cause the the collapse of our economy.

Is it worth it?

No, not in my mind. Neither this President nor the next will be able to bring us out of this mess without a lot of grief for too many Americans.

NAFTA was a suicidal move that we signed for the UN to bring worldwide economies highers. The result was to trash ours.

People will have to talk a long time after I'm dead to convince me otherwise.

Communist socialism has never worked before and it won't work now.


16 posted on 09/08/2004 7:36:12 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Truth goes through three stages, ridiculed, violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident)
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To: eno_
Pass a law raising retirement age to 75, and voila! All is fine.

I believe the largest unfunded liabilities are Medicare/aid not SS.

Course, I would also throw in a GSE bailout, and a bailout of their counterparties....Course, if that happens we will also need to bailout most small banks, 401Ks, homeowners, etc, etc.

17 posted on 09/08/2004 7:37:16 PM PDT by AdamSelene235
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To: untenured
Gibberish.

Yeah, I think he's way, way too optimistic.

18 posted on 09/08/2004 7:39:05 PM PDT by AdamSelene235
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To: Wolfgang_Blitzkrieg
The federal government has loads of unfunded liabilities, but I don't care because the rapture will hit sometime in the next three years. I will be outa here and the Libruls can deal with the mess.

Rapture? Three years? How can you possibly know such a thing.

As an aside let me add Hal Lindsay was prophesying crap years ago that never came to be. You know the test. If a prophet misses the mark he is not from God and there ain't no 'in the flesh' exception.

Let me predict that you will be very disappointed 3 years from now.

19 posted on 09/08/2004 8:46:16 PM PDT by Lester Moore (Islam is begging to be destroyed by a Christian Crusade! Forthcoming!)
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!


20 posted on 09/09/2004 3:04:22 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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