>That's more than 2000 dollars for EACH U.S. citizen; babies, children, old-aged included! So, that's what the U.S. will gonna spend coming year per person WITHOUT HAVING COLLECTED THAT AMOUNT AS TAXES. And who'll gonna pay this back to the ones who lend that money? Your U.S. children?
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>I thought the U.S. was the richest country in the world! Well, perhaps it was... once.

The deficit is a very large amount of money, but I don't think it is the highest it has ever been if you are looking at it as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).