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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (403176)	7/31/2008 11:55:14 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576364

"The deficit started going down after a local maximum in 2004 and kept going down until a local minimum in 2007 of $162B" Try again. It was $144.6 billion in fiscal 2001. This was the last budget under Clinton. The deficit was $409.3 billion in 2002, $589.0 billion in 2003, $605.0 billion in 2004, $523.2 billion in 2005, $536.5 billion in 2006. The first budget under a Democratic Congress was 2007 at $527.9 billion. Remember, that was the budget the Republicans couldn't get passed before they lost the election. And then, in a fit of petulance, didn't do anything on after the election. en.wikipedia.org Now the budget for 2008 as proposed by Bush was $2.9 trillion, exclusive of appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan. And that goes to $3.1 trillion in 2009, again excluding the war costs.