How much was the budget deficit  just prior to 9/11/01?
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In 2001, the budget had a surplus of $127 billion.\n\nHowever, the US had a national debt of $5.8 trillion that same year, so...
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Fiscal deficit is spending more than is taken in. When it's government spending the difference is made up by borrowing, for example, selling bonds. This leaves the debt and interest to be paid by our children.  Last week I heard the current deficit has indebted each US citizen $27,000*.  In 2000, at the end of the last administration, there was a surplus (spent less than was taken in).
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trillion 1 followed by 12 zeros
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About 1 Trillion. See source link for more.
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The US has been over there off & on since the first World War.  Lately, we've been over there since 9-11 happened back in 01.
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Because in the 1009s the American people - through their elected representatives gutted the military budget while increasing its overseas missions.\n\nOne of the things you decided that you were no longer going to pay for was to have adequate fighter defense of the contenental US.\n\nAs a result there were only 14 fighter aircraft 'on alert' on 9/11.  \n\nYou get what you pay for.
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i think last year it was around 12.5 trillion
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The Budget Deficit is only one tiny little part of the whole debt problem the USA, and by extension the rest of the world, faces in the very near future. Yes, I realize I am saying a lot when I refer to our colossal deficit as tiny.\n\nThere is a monstrous deficit in the amount of repairs and improvements to our infrastructure that has been tossed about since the 1984 election that no one has really taken care of. Our local water systems are collapsing, and privatization has only made the problem worse. We are not working on improving our ability to complete interstate commerce upon which our economy depends. The multi-state black-out caused by a lightning strike should have been a wake up call, but if people don't care that you can't drink the water out of the kitchen sink I guess we have a ways to go.\n\nWhile we have the highest number of homeowners in our history, far too many of them are using the equity to extend the self-delusion that they are still in the middle class. This is why you see so many commercials of how neat it would be to mortgage your home to 125% of the value and take that vacation, just like the rich folks do!\n\nUnsecured debt and the resultant explosion of bankruptcy is going to plunge a large part of the population into a situation where eventually they will never be able to buy a car outside of the Trading Times and never have a chance of opening a business except a MLM nightmare.\n\nWe are allowing our growing need for energy to outstrip our ability to supply it even with foreign and unreliable sources. We are allowing a future without adequate education and job skills because of apathy on the part of parents and short sightedness of multinational employers. The list goes on and on.\n\nLets face it, the future is going to be a cold, dark and nasty place. Let's hope we're dead and buried long before it gets here.
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The U.S. paid one half trillion on the debt in 2006.  Wouldn't it have been nice if we could have used that money on something important?
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Just four?\n\nTook the largest budget surplus in history and turned it into the largest deficit in history. Authorizing borrowing equal to all the borrowing done by all the previous presidents combined. \n\nIgnored red flag warnings that our country was going to be attacked by terrorists\n\nStopped looking for Osama Bin Laden (CIA trained Uber-terrorist) and turned all attention to the man that tried to kill his daddy.\n\nLied repeatedly about our reasons for entering a bloody and divisive conflict thats cost billions of dollars and the lives of 2500 of Americas bravest children.
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tax cuts for rich.  brought war to Iraq.  no response to Katrina.  wasted millions on horrible programs like no child left behind.  also spent too much on the Medicare program.  didn't focus on Osama like he should have.  allowed u.s. ports to be sold to countries that house terrorists.  Umm... other than that not much.
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America fought almost entire world war 2 with paper money.And today on an average every American spent already the entire money of next budget with credit cards.And America`s deficit budget makes it necessary to break records in printing currency.The joke is that the money you do not have is not of much value due to inflation.Relax.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/results.aspx?Scope=TC&Query=budget
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Well, the last Democrat in office came close to budget surplus (but you can see Republicans won't admit it) and he didn't have a 8 Trillion dollar debt.\n\n"President Clinton inherited the deficit spending problem and did more than just talk about it, he fixed it.  In his first two years and with a cooperative Congress he set the course for the best economy this country has ever experienced.  Then he worked with what could be characterized as the most hostel Congress in history for the last six years of his administration, yet he still managed to get the growth of the debt down to 0.32% (one third of one percent) his last year in office.  Had his policies been followed for one more year the debt would have been reduced for the first time since the first year of the Kennedy administration.\n\nReagan called for a balance budget amendment but never submitted a balanced budget.The current President Bush came into office and quickly turned all that progress around.  He immediately gave yet another massive tax cut based on a failed economic policy; perhaps an economic fantasy describes it better.  \n\nThe last year Clinton was in office the nation borrowed an additional 18 billion dollars, the first year Bush Jr. was in office he had to borrow 270 billion.  The tax cut that caused this borrowing was supposed to stimulate the economy, but two years later Bush had to push through yet another tax cut.  The second tax cut was needed because it was clear that the first one did not work.  Economic history tells us the second did not work either.  As a result of all this tax cutting and no cutting in what he is spending President Bush set a record in 2003 for the biggest single yearly increase in debt in the nation’s history, again in 2004,2005 and by his own estimations he will break this record again in 2006.  The debt is now increasing at the rate of 600 billion dollars a year[ \n\nOur economy could collapse, especially when the Euro replaces the dollar as the world standard.\n\nAdditionally, China doesn't have to go to war with the US. They only have to call in the debt we owe them. Japan can do the same.
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September 11th, 2001.
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You are asking questions about things that are not paid for out of the same budgets.\n\nThe United States federal goverments first, and basically only job when this country was created was defense.  \n\nUntil recent times - Defense was the largest percentage of the total federal budget by far.\n\nAs time has gone on other things have been added to it. Including what takes up the majority of the Federal Budget these days.  These things that have been added are "required spending" budget items.  These are things that no matter what - they have to be paid.  This includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, interest, payroll, and other such expenses that deal with the day to day operation of the Federal government.\n\nDefense comes out of what is called discretionary spending.  As would anything the Feds spend on Education.\n\nTo answer your question directly - defense is about 20 percent, and Medicare/Medicaid (health) combined are going to also be about 20 percent.  Education is going to come out of the rest of the discretionary budget - not sure what it is off the top of my head - but its a very small percentage.\n\nSource 2 below has the info from the above paragraph - source 1 is the page that pdf came from, which has alot of other charts and graphs put out the US House of Representatives.\n\nSource 3 covers some historical data on the Defense spending.\n\nDefense is only paid for by the Feds.\n\nEducation on the other hand is going to be paid for by each state.  So to answer that question - you would have to look at each state.  There is many other Health Care programs that are paid for at the state level also - again - not something that can be answered here - way to many different things.\n\nBasically - the Feds pay for Social Security, Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, and things that cross states borders like Interstates.  They also spend large chunks of change on things like Disaster Relief.  \n\nStates pay for Education.\n\n.. and for the most part - employers pay for Health Care in this country.
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2006 has a 2.6 trillion dollar budget, with 500 billion deficit, so the IRS must have collected most of 2.1 trillion dollars, no?  I'm sure there were interest payments and such, but figure 130 million taxpayers paid the most of it.