Posted on 01/12/2013 8:45:06 AM PST by iloveamerica1980
A brief visual history of United States Federal State and Local Government Spending from 1980 to 2012. The United States deficit was 221 billion in 1990. It is now 6.2 trillion as of 2012. This is morally and fiscally irresponsible.
Lunch Bump.
And all the debt that we, our children and grandchildren are on the hook for has generated NADA is economic growth.
Calvin Coolidge talking about our debt and the effect it has on all Americans. Its easy to see why Reagan revered him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw
Graphs would be a lot easier to grasp. There are just too many numbers to make much sense of them.
16.2 trillion
We used to make then plow the fields and pick the crops, now we just let them sit on their butts.
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