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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Can Our Nation Be Saved?

National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are used, the unfunded liability or indebtedness of the federal government (mostly in the form of obligations for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and prescription drugs) is estimated to be between $60 and $100 trillion.

Those entitlements along with others account for nearly 60 percent of federal spending. They are what Congress calls mandatory or non-discretionary spending. Then there's discretionary spending, half of which is for national defense. Each year, non-discretionary spending consumes a higher and higher percent of the federal budget.

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1 comment:

EdenMan said...

Our elected officials need to make serious cuts....but they won't, because getting reelected is their only job once in office.Some think they were elected to office to serve the American people......wake up and smell the coffee