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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (30358)	5/9/2010 5:59:54 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Ok, I know this is really pointless and everything, but even from the original source of your "documentation": wnd.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (30358)	5/9/2010 5:59:55 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

The key data point in Moody's view is the size of federal interest payments on the public debt as a percentage of tax revenue. For the U.S., debt service of 18%-20% of federal revenue is the outer limit of AAA-territory, Moody's managing director Pierre Cailleteau confirmed in an e-mail. Under the Obama budget, interest would top 18% of revenue in 2018 and 20% in 2020, CBO projects. But under more adverse scenarios than the CBO considered, including higher interest rates, Moody's projects that debt service could hit 22.4% of revenue by 2013. investors.com