Posts Tagged ‘deficit’
Federal government spending, where to cut and trim
It’s been 16 years since President Clinton took office, and at the time he asked the public for suggestions on how to reduce the deficit. If I remember correctly, Al Gore was tasked to find inefficiencies and redundancies in government and squash them. It never happened. The federal budget has ballooned from about $1 trillion…
Read MoreWow – Bush Unveils $3.1 Trillion Budget for 2009
Can you believe this? Can you comprehend how much money one trillion dollars is? That’s 1,000 billion dollars. Now times that by more than three. For reference, in 2002 we broke the two trillion dollar mark. That means – no matter how you look at it – the federal government has grown almost 36 percent…
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