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	<title>The National Debt Crisis</title>
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	<description>Exploring the Causes and Consequences of America's Runaway National Debt</description>
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		<title>National Debt February 2010</title>
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The National Debt totaled $12.440 trillion as of February 28, 2010, a new record for the largest national debt ever.  This was up from a national debt of $12.279 trillion on February 1, 2010, meaning that federal government debt increased by approximately $161 billion in the month of February 2010 alone.
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		<title>Social Security Crisis</title>
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The Social Security Crisis is now worse than previously thought.  Each year, the Social Security Trustee’s Report updates us on the status of the Social Security Crisis.  The most recent trustee’s report indicated that it would be 2016 before Social Security began paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes.  However, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit Panel</title>
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With much fanfare, President Obama created a Deficit Panel yesterday for the purpose of finding bipartisan solutions to the exploding federal budget deficit and national debt.  The official name of the Deficit Panel is the “National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”.  That name is obviously too long for most people to remember, so already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Debt Clock</title>
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The National Debt Clock was erected in New York City’s Times Square in 1989, when the national debt was just $2.7 trillion.  In 2004, the National Debt Clock was moved from its original location on 42nd Street to its current location on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), about a block away.
The National Debt Clock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Debt Ceiling Increases Again</title>
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The National Debt Ceiling has been increased once again.  With no fanfare whatsoever, President Obama signed into law on February 12, 2010 a bill raising the national debt ceiling from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion.  The signing took place behind closed doors and with no cameras present.
The National Debt Ceiling had been raised less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit &#8211; Yet Another Record</title>
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President Obama has released revised budget projections, and they show another record deficit for the federal budget.  The budget deficit for the 2009 fiscal year was a record of $1.4 trillion, but the projected deficit for fiscal year 2010 is projected to set a new record at almost $1.6 trillion.  In 2011, the Administration expects [...]]]></description>
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