When reading House FY07 budget sees $348 bln deficit, the eyes gloss over and the brain shuts down. How can one even begin to fathom money in sums that large? That is just the deficit! The actual budget is $2.7 trillion with some more almost assuredly to be tacked on at a later date to cover things they forgot about.
I hate the way they write out things like that in the news. It makes the difference between million and billion look like a single step. Same with billion to trillion. Let's write it out in full.
Deficit= $348,000,000,000
Budget= $2,700,000,000,000
Gotta love those zeros. But let's put it into a more human perspective. If every person in the United States, regardless of age, had a full time job earning minimum wage, we'd have to give it all to the government just to cover the budget. That's over $10,000 per person. Don't forget that this has nothing to do with the already existent national debt or Social Security, which is figured separately.
See, not real money at all. So don't worry about it.
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The money isn't real, but the amount of work we have to do to prop up this phony system is very real indeed.
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