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...percentage of the GDP. And every year we dramatically understate the yearly deficit by offsetting the real deficit with money borrowed from some 150 federal trust funds (such as the Social Security Trust Fund). The total of the published annual deficits for the last 10 years is approximately $ 1 trillion, but the actual federal debt has increased over $4 trillion. In other words, the yearly deficit is not the real amount we add to the debt for that year--it is considerably understated. My generation has been lying...
...have dramatically understated the total debt. The total amount of federal debt which we say we are leaving your generation is $5.4 trillion, but that in no way represents the costs of government services which my generation enjoyed but leave to your generation...
...arsenals, like Saddam's biological weapons, with a group of semi-independent terrorists, like radical Islamist groups, who might slip such bioweapons into the U.S. and use them. It wouldn't take much. This is the poor man's atom bomb. A gram of anthrax culture contains a trillion spores, theoretically enough for 100 million fatal doses. The stuff can be spread into the air with backpack sprayers or even perfume atomizers. The U.N.'s specialists say that 100 lbs. of anthrax bacteria sprayed around a city of 1 million could kill 36,000 people within a week. And Saddam...
While providing public funding to federal candidates would not be cheap--it would run several hundred million dollars per election year--but the cost is minuscule when compared to the federal government's annual budget of $1.6 trillion. The cost is also small when one considers the price of the public cynicism generated by our current system...
...radiation, or both, to wipe out the disease. But that treatment kills the patient's bone-marrow cells as well. Without this spongy tissue at the core of many larger bones, a person cannot live. Marrow contains the precious stem cells that produce all the body's 30,000 trillion red blood cells, many of its infection-fighting white cells and the platelets that are essential for clotting...