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US DEBT BALLOONS: $15,356,140,000,000...
Yahoo Finance ^ | February 1, 2012 | Associated Press

Posted on 02/01/2012 9:54:42 PM PST by Steelers6

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Figures on government spending and debt The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.

Total public debt subject to limit Jan. 30

15,313,699,000,000

Statutory debt limit

16,394,000,000,000

Total public debt outstanding Jan. 30

15,356,140,000,000

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; january
Debt increases by $133 billion this month
1 posted on 02/01/2012 9:54:51 PM PST by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6

Wasn’t it just May of last year when the debt hit the previous limit of a “mere” $14.3 trillion?


2 posted on 02/01/2012 9:58:14 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Steelers6

$4.4 billion/day

$184 million/hour

$30,000.00/second


3 posted on 02/01/2012 9:59:17 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Steelers6
Warren Buffet [bʉˈfeɪ] owes $1 Billion that he won't pay
4 posted on 02/01/2012 10:05:00 PM PST by Steelers6
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To: Steelers6
US DEBT BALLOONS: $15,356,140,000,000...

WOW .... it is amazing just how much debt Mr. George W. Bush is mounting on this country!!!! ....... We should all be ashamed! Mr. Obama is trying to save us from all of this mounting debt!!! ..... yet, Mr. Bush keeps adding to it! I just don't know how much this country can stand of the Bush policies?!?!?

Mr. Obama is doing his best to protect this country from the assault of the deficit building Republicans!!! .... Gawwwd save us all!

Pray for Mr. Obama to save us from all of this EEEEEEEEVIL!!!!!

5 posted on 02/01/2012 10:09:39 PM PST by R_Kangel
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To: Steelers6
Warren Buffet [bʉˈfeɪ] owes $1 Billion that he won't pay

That will help for about 6 hours ...

6 posted on 02/01/2012 10:10:46 PM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Steelers6

I try to put this out of my mind, and you have to go and drag me back to reality.


7 posted on 02/01/2012 10:13:35 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Steelers6

Impending doom has a way of sharpening the mind. We must under all circumstances replace the idiot in Chief.


8 posted on 02/01/2012 10:27:05 PM PST by garjog (If not Newt, who?)
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To: garjog

“We must under all circumstances replace the idiot in Chief.”

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True enough.

More significantly, fundamentally and for the long-term we need to decrease the number of American voters who empower thieving collectivists, to steal other men’s gold for their own benefit.

After all, this impossible to fathom debt, must one day be repaid on the backs of honest, working Americans.


9 posted on 02/01/2012 10:31:23 PM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Steelers6

10 posted on 02/01/2012 11:14:28 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: R_Kangel

There’s a graph floating around on Facebook and the Internets claiming that the debt has grown the most under Republican presidents going by percentage of increase over the previous administration. This percentage statistic is very misleading. As it stands now, the debt has raised as much in THREE years under Obama as it did in EIGHT years under Bush. He’s on pace to double the national debt in SIX years over what he inherited. We can’t afford to keep this idiot in office.


11 posted on 02/02/2012 12:18:30 AM PST by edge919
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To: Steelers6
OBAMA RED INK
12 posted on 02/02/2012 1:08:30 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: Steelers6

You can keep track here: http://usdebtclock.org/


13 posted on 02/02/2012 3:02:04 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Steelers6
This is all perfectly understandable,
You might not spend your money correctly,
so Obama is going to spend it for you.

14 posted on 02/02/2012 3:40:38 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: Steelers6

This is insanity. Obama’s spending is at truly insane levels but he simply is working a system that already is in place. The only president in the modern era (say, since the 60s) who actually held the line on spending was Reagan, and even he wasn’t able to cut it. He simply stopped it from growing. We talk about how unfair it is to blame Bush for Obama’s deficits and that is true. But Bush launched his own “Compassionate Conservative” spending binge right after he was sworn in. Remember that his first couple of programs were entitlement expansions and an education spending binge. We need someone with the ability to dismantle the system.


15 posted on 02/02/2012 5:09:40 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“We need someone with the ability to dismantle the system.”

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More fundamentally, we need an electorate that will stop voting to steal other people’s money, and elect such people to office.

We are very close to unrecoverable disaster in this country, as the voting population is near 50% parasites.


16 posted on 02/02/2012 6:31:59 AM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Steelers6

It’s okay: we’ll just print more money. :)


17 posted on 02/02/2012 7:42:03 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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"It’s okay: we’ll just print more money. :)"

What do you mean that I have no money?
I still have checks in my checkbook ...

18 posted on 02/02/2012 7:45:25 AM PST by BlueLancer (Secede?! Y'all better just be thankful we don't invade ...)
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To: Steelers6

Just round it up to an even jillion.


19 posted on 02/02/2012 8:03:16 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Steelers6

Given the trends in the debt, economy (lack of production of useful things) and political demographics (nearly all well paid constituents being government-dependent either directly or indirectly), repudiation and currency adjustment in the near future are nearly inevitable.


20 posted on 02/02/2012 12:07:57 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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