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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
- Subject: Black Hole Economics (was: Re: DEBT vs. DEFICIT)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.224004.17424@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <whitlock.76.0@vaxb.gbus.virginia.edu> <1992Aug23.000508.16237@csi.uottawa.ca> <1992Aug23.210940.13578@isc-br.isc-br.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:40:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug23.210940.13578@isc-br.isc-br.com> steveh@thor.isc-br.com (Steve Hendricks) writes:
- >Actually, with respect to the US, this is untrue. Federal government
- >surpluses are by no means, unknown. In fact, they were quite common
- >between the civil war and the the turn of the century.
-
- Surpluses ended with the onset of World War II and the Cold War (except for a
- couple during Eisenhower and Nixon).
-
- After that, it was: Balanced Budget and Interest = Deficit. Debt. Balanced
- Budget and bigger Interest = Deficit. Bigger Debt. Surplus break. Balanced
- Budget and even bigger Interest = even bigger Deficit. Even Bigger Debt.
- Another surplus break. Balanced Budget and even bigger Interest. Large
- Deficit. Faster growing Debt.
-
- And now the 1990's. Balanced Budget and Whopping $400 billion interest! Huge
- Deficit! Rapidly growing Debt. Even bigger Interest. Even bigger Deficits.
- Even more rapidly growing Debt.
-
- It's Black Hole Economics!
-
- A third the American taxpayer money is getting sucked up in interest now,
- which is accumulating into the hands of the creditors, causing all of our
- Wealth to be sopped up by a few rich people. Excellent idea. Can I have in
- on the farce too before the jig is up? I wanna make a quick million and then
- leave the country before the Pyramid scheme falls.
-
- Hell, we've always had a balanced budget, after WWII. But Congress kept
- forgetting to pay the interest!
-