In 2007 I believe it was $250 billion. Should be in the 275-300 ballpark this year.

>Kevin,
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>Does The Californian mention how much of the budget is slated to pay interest on the debt? Should be a handsome number in itself.
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>At one point here it was 37cents of every federal dollar spent.
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>>As taken from the Californian:
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>>“The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eye-popping
>>federal deficits”
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>>And who exactly does he think is going to pay for all this????
>>
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>>“The Pentagon would receive a $36 billion, 8 percent boost for the 2009 budget year
>>beginning Oct 1, even as programs aimed at the poor would be cut back or eliminated”
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>>and
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>>"Half of domestic Cabinet departments would see their budgets cut outright"
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>>That's it - take away domestic programs to add on to the greatest military machine the
>>world has evern known.
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>>"Our formula formula for achieving a balanced budget is simple: Create conditions for economic growth,
>>keep taxes low, and spend taxpayer dollars wisely or not at all", Bush said in his budget message.
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>>So does spending $491,839,770,000 on the unnecessary war in Iraq fall under "spending taxpayer dollars wisely"
>>or "not at all"??
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>>Remember when Bill Clinton was in office and the United States had a projected federal budget surplus for the
>>first time since 1969?? Not only did Bush spend it all, he now has the US in debt for many, many years to
>>come.
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>>January 20th, 2009 - The End of an Error