>Gee Bart, are you saying that there is no surplus?
Ted ---
You and several others have asked me the same question.
I'm not saying there's no surplus, the *NUMBERS* are saying there's no
surplus ....
NatDebt 99.09.07 = $ 5,670,241 million
NatDebt 98.09.30 = $ 5,526,193 million
Increase in ND = $144,040 million in 342 days
This works out to $421.2 million per day.
That is a 36% worse daily increase than in FY98, by the way ...
NatDebt 98.09.30 = $ 5,526,193 million
NatDebt 97.09.30 = $ 5,413,146 million
Increase in ND = $113,047 million
This works out to a mere $309.7 million per day.
To put the present debt in a context we ordinary folks can understand,
consider a tightly packed stack of 1000 brand new $1 bills. It will be
4 inches high.
The US National Debt, as of today, would make a stack 343,455 miles
(552,619 km) high. The average daily increase is equivalent to 26.2
miles per day.
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