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Thor_MN

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2. First off, you are looking at the 2020 projection as if it were today
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 08:58 AM
Aug 2016

(and a period got included with the first link, breaking it)

Here is the link to "Today" http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

The current national debt is $19.4 trillion according to this site, not $21 trillion. Bush also doubled the National Debt and left unfunded war expenses for the next president to deal with. Republican policies have been generally spend like drunken sailor on credit cards (and pocketing cash advances) while bellowing about government spending, then skipping port and let the Dems clean up their messes.

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