Question about our debt and deficit?

[Kber]

Does anyone out there know what our current budget deficit is and what our total national dept is>
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TIA

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[TahitiNut]

1. Around $500 billion deficit, about $8.4 trillion debt

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Oh, that's way better than the articles I found *high five*

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[Kber]

4. Very interesting - thanks!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Here are some articles on that

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:www.commondreams.org+budget+deficit+national+debt

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[kentuck]

5. And ask yourself.....

What percent of the GDP is Social Security?? Perhaps you know? Not that it is any more relevant than the deficit as amt of GDP but....IF one is not a problem, then the other is surely not a problem either. Because as part of GDP, Social Security is a minimal amount

[TahitiNut]

6. Here's debt (incl SoSec Reserve) as % of GDP