On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:59:54PM -0400, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> And, it can be pointed out, we're paying off that debt with ease - the
> US government now runs a yearly surplus larger than the total budgets
> of most of the countries in the world.
How are we paying off the debt with ease? Filtering the noise (+/- $100B
or so) the US debt has not gone down in the past 14 years.
DATE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT
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05/22/2001 $5,658,520,030,420.14
04/30/2001 $5,661,347,798,002.65
03/30/2001 $5,773,739,949,951.53
02/28/2001 $5,735,859,380,573.98
01/31/2001 $5,716,070,587,057.36
12/29/2000 $5,662,216,013,697.37
11/30/2000 $5,709,699,281,427.00
10/31/2000 $5,657,327,531,667.14
09/29/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38
09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66
09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25
09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm
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