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- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Conservative Values
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.095927.15301@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Sender: rja@mahogany126 (Russ Anderson)
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- References: <1993Jan4.183927.8268@news.columbia.edu> <1993Jan5.192842.19836@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1993Jan5.151346.14536@hemlock.cray.com> <1993Jan5.232941.17860@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 09:59:27 CST
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- In article <1993Jan5.232941.17860@news.columbia.edu>, rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan5.151346.14536@hemlock.cray.com> rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
- > >In article <1993Jan5.192842.19836@dg-rtp.dg.com>, crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:
- > >> In article <1993Jan4.183927.8268@news.columbia.edu> rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston) writes:
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- > >> >You are not giving mike his due credit. Let us not forget 1992, with its
- > >> >399 billion dollar deficit. I do not have the figures on estimated GNP for
- > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > >> The deficit for fiscal year 1992, which ended in September, was 290 billion.
- > >> Evidently you don't have any figures at all.
- > >
- > >The deficit for 1992 was ~$290B. The $399B figure was from the mid-year
- > >estimate. Half of the difference was a ~$50B S&L bailout package that
- > >congress refused to pass in an election year. We'll pay for that (and more)
- > >in the 1993 budget.
- > >
- > Do you mean I made an error? wow. :)
- >
- > It would seem though that someone insisting that the deficit was only
- > 290 billion dollars is practicing the new math taught in schools these
- > days.
- >
- > Thank you for posting something a little more informative than "you're wrong,
- > Nyah,Nyah!"
- >
- > Anyone have any idea what the deficit really was for the past fiscal year?
- > Not including various manipulations to make things look better in an
- > election year, of course.
-
- For FY 1992 (which ended Sept 30, 1992) the deficit was $290 Billion.
- I think the estimate for 1993 is ~$340 Billion.
- Bush just announced the budget projections for 1994 & 1995. The
- deficit will be over $300 Billion each year.
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