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To: Publius; All
Debt? What debt? ;)
13 posted on 07/03/2009 8:41:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
You can bet that the fraction spent on defense has shrunk, health and human services has increased, as has Homeland Security. HHS is the single biggest part of the budget that is totally outside of the Constitutional mandate. Social Security is as well, but is not generally considered part of the budget.

The "debt" is actually much bigger, since they don't count the money they owe to Social Security, which they'll have to start paying back in a few years, maybe next year, or the year after, as fewer people are paying in per person drawing out as the population ages.

20 posted on 07/03/2009 2:06:10 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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