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Uncle Sam’s first name is Bernie


The Congressional Budget Office approximates the United States budget deficit of 2009 at $1.414 trillion dollars. Projected deficits for the coming year, assuming the same laws of 2009 (not including new spending initiatives like health care), predict decreasing yet similar deficits. In the past, the U.S. government only ran deficits to finance wars, and did […]