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- From: thomasr@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com (G. Thomas Rush)
- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
- Organization: Compaq Computer Corp
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:04:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1Isnz.GuG@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com>
- References: <1993Jan25.193802.11812@adobe.com> <1993Jan26.213107.20770@kodak.kodak.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.213107.20770@kodak.kodak.com> guiguizi@kodak.kodak.com (Paul Guiguizian x79315/AT/2-49-KP) writes:
- >
- >[...]
- >The deficit is not a problem unless the rest of the world calls in our
- >loans.
- >
- >These are not the opinions of Kodak; they are those of Ben Steele.
- >steele@sun1ais.kodak.com
-
- (Well, they are somebody's opinions; I admit I don't know _whose_.)
-
- While you just _may_ be right about the deficit (other things being
- equal), you are _very_ wrong when the debt is taken into account.
- For the past several years, not counting last year, interest on the
- federal debt had been running pretty close to equal to the annual
- deficit.
-
- Last year, we turned the corner, or bent the knee for the graphically
- inclined: we paid more money in interest than that year's deficit.
- Now, interest as a percent of expendatures can start to grow faster
- and faster, sucking more and more money away from whatever legitimate
- purposes you believe government has.
-
- What happens when interest is 50% of the federal budget? 75%? My
- newspaper this morning says that the deficit for fiscal first quarter
- is running 44% _ahead_ of last year's record -- 44%. How long can
- we keep this up?
-
- thomas rush compaq computer corporation
- thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com their employee, not their opinions.
- By my belief that government should be minimized, I swear to oppose
- the unrequested intrusion of government into the lives of individuals
-