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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (43382)	5/24/2010 2:32:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Yes but the spending we are talking about is SDI, the interest on just that spending (even if you consider it all borrowed money, rather than using the more reasonable measure of assigning borrowing to different programs based on the percentage of all government spending that comes from borrowing, multiplied by the dollar amount spent on the program), isn't a significant factor at this point. So if a particular program spent $10bil, and the government at the time was borrowing 20% of all spending, that $10bil would be $2bil in borrowing, not $10bil.