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: Lessig Blogthe wrong in earmarks
By Lessig
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SusanG at the DailyKos has a callout for John Cole's post about earmarks. As Cole put's it: The total national debt, as I write this, is $9,679,000,000,000.00 (nine and a half trillion).
The Budget for 2008 is close to $3,000,000,000,000.00 (three trillion).
Our budget deficit for this year is going to range in between $400-500,000,000,000.00 (four hundred to five hundred billion, give or take a few billion).
The total value of earmarks in 2008 will be approximately $18,000,000,000.00 (eighte read more
Full post as published by Lessig Blog on September 11, 2008 (boomark / email).
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