(Archived document, may contain errors) TAMING THE FEDERAL SPENDING MONSTER by Lewis K. Uhler We have reached a milestone in federal fiscal irresponsibility: the cash debt of the United States now exceeds the total value of the shares traded on U.S. stock exchanges. In o ther words, if we were to sell all U.S. stock market-traded stocks, which Forbes has calculated to have a current value of about $2.2 trillion, it wouldn't be enough to pay off the national debt. And there are other ways to put the national debt in perspe ctive:
(Archived document, may contain errors) 683 r December 19,1988 T HE CASE FOR KEEPING SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE BUDGET INTRODUCTION Social Security is the federal budgets second largest program, exceeded only by national defense. Roughly 20 percent of all federal spending is allocated for Social Security benefit payments, while about one-quarter of all federal revenues are raised through the Social.
Posted on July 13th, 2021
Dilrook Kannangara
Sri Lanka is
in a foreign exchange crisis. It has short term and long-term reasons. In 1977
when the economy was opened, it was done in a haphazard way. Due to those
deficiencies the nation faces many nasty consequences. A powerful, wealthy,
criminal and anti-national import mafia has been created. They import anything
they like from narcotics to bombs. It is time to wrest control of the imports
industry and fix the largest national security loophole in the country.
How Did We Get Here?
After winning the
1977 election on the promise of opening the economy, the government simply did
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