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- Path: sparky!uunet!pmafire!mica.inel.gov!whg
- From: whg@inel.gov (Bill Gray)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.152116.8061@inel.gov>
- Sender: news@inel.gov
- Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
- References: <1992Dec14.224955.7981@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 15:21:16 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Dec21.171659.18729@ttinews.tti.com>, kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec14.224955.7981@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> spm2d@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven Miale) writes:
- |> %
- |> %Today I mourn the economic death of America.
- |> %
- |> %We're on a collision course with the national debt. ...
- |>
- |> Says who. You?
- |>
- |> You think the national debt is bad? Look at the CONSUMER debt! It was
- |> something like 12 trillion in 1990. ...
-
- Follow me on this :
-
- 12 trillion = 12 000 000 000 000 = 12 * 10e12
-
- The population of the US is roughly 250 million:
-
- 250 million = 250 000 000 = 250 * 10e6 = 25 * 10e7
-
- Let's call it 240 million to make the arithmetic really easy; then we
- have
-
- 12 * 10e12
- ----------- = 0.5 * 10e5 = 5 * 10e4
- 24 * 10e7
-
- Or roughly $50,000 for every man, woman, child and probably most of the
- cats dogs and parakeets in the US of A. This seems to be on the very edge
- of credibility. perhaps even round the bend.
-
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