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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Nov 17 22:48:54 2009, in response to US National Debt passes $12 trillion, posted by Phantom909 on Tue Nov 17 22:02:57 2009. It is triple what it was last year.US Govt Debt 2008: $9,985.8 B; 2009 (est): $12,867.5 B is a 29% increase not 300%. the Debt is also almost as high as the US GDP It was 120% of GDP, when I was a lad. The bigger problem is the trade imbalance by an order of magnitude. Before you start pointing fingers - look at how we got here:
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