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To: optimistically_conservative

}optimistically_conservative signed up 2002-12-17.

That's nothing. You should see the war debt WE inherited for saving Europe from itself!

19 posted on 01/15/2003 9:03:23 PM PST by DensaMensa

To: DensaMensa

Debt level in 1950: $257,357,352,351.04
Debt level in 2000: $5,674,178,209,886.86

That is an increase of 2200% in just 50 years.
Source: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdhisto4.htm

22 posted on 01/15/2003 9:14:15 PM PST by Karsus (TrueFacts=GOOD, GoodFacts=BAD)

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