compare it’s debt to its gdp...
gdp: $103 billion (2013)
debt: $72 billion
per capita: $20,281 (3.55m people)
that puts their gdp to debt ratio around 1 : 1.43
meanwhile, for the US federal govt:
gdp: $17.7 trillion
debt: $18.3 trillion
per capita: $57,366 (319m people)
that puts its gdp to debt ratio around 1 : 0.96
the US federal government is in MUCH worse shape.
MUCH, MUCH worse.
I think you need to turn those last two numbers around.
Which is actually worse, but accurate according to those numbers.
If Liberals were honest, there would be a call to drag Paul Krugman out of house and “stone him to death” /Alec Baldwin
Giving money to the government so it can hire people to do bureaucratic make work that competes with capitalism and stifles economic growth has failed everytime it is tried (which is every time a progressive gets into a position of power.