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To: unlearner
"$2.9 billion represents a full 0.08 percent of 2012 federal outlays.”

He means 0.08% of the full budget, not of the $33.3B.

$2.9B/0.0008 = $3.625 Trillion

9 posted on 07/13/2013 10:39:31 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: UnwashedPeasant

OK. That makes sense. Thanks.


12 posted on 07/13/2013 2:45:10 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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