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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (301268)9/27/2002 12:07:08 AM
From: MSI  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
"Thus the actual federal debt is approximately $36 trillion, calculates Rettenmaier, a figure that amounts to $120,000 for every man, woman, and child in America

That's some scary sh*t

"DEPENDENT ON DC" goes into why gov't officials are so motivated to forget ethics and blatantly lie about this.

Good book.

No wonder real estate is going up.
It's the only thing real. The rest is fantasyland.



To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (301268)9/27/2002 4:21:43 AM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Un-funded Social Security contingent liabilities estimated

looking forward * $10 Trillion

Un-funded Medicare contingent liabilities, estimated * $ 7 Trillion

Un-funded federal employee pension and medical contingent

liabilities (incl. Postal service)* ? no estimate, trillions

Un-funded state & local government employee pension & medical liabilities ? no estimate, trillions

Other off-budget Federal Govt. borrowings and Enron style fraud* ?